Preservation Hall Jazz Band
NewMusicForOldFolks says …
The Preservation Hall in New Orleans is exactly as it sounds — a building/organization dedicated to the preservation and study of Jazz in the Crescent City. A rotating group of more than 100 players plays five shows a night, seven days a week at the Hall. Members of the touring/recording group are often part of those shows. I haven't had the pleasure of seeing them play at the Hall, but I did catch the band as part of Trombone Shorty's "New Orleans Threauxdown" last summer. Shorty, along with Galactic and guests Kermit Ruffins and Walter "Wolfman" Washington Turned an August night in Ohio into a trip to the Big Easy. But when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was on the stage it was a little different. They represent the history as well as the music. The band has been playing for more than half a century and the current crop of musicians takes the line all the way to the present.
Artist's Info
Website: preservationhalljazzband.com
See them live: Tour dates
Record company: Sony Legacy
Genre: Jazz
If you like this, look into: Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Rebirth Brass Band, Kermit Ruffins
Bio (From the artist's website)
At a moment when musical streams are crossing with unprecedented frequency, it’s crucial to remember that throughout its history, New Orleans has been the point at which sounds and cultures from around the world converge, mingle, and resurface, transformed by the Crescent City’s inimitable spirit and joie de vivre. Nowhere is that idea more vividly embodied than in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, which has held the torch of New Orleans music aloft for more than 50 years, all the while carrying it enthusiastically forward as a reminder that the history they were founded to preserve is a vibrantly living history. (more)
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Recordings
SO IT IS (2017): PHJB marches that tradition forward once again on So It Is, the septet’s second release featuring all-new original music. The album redefines what New Orleans music means in 2017 by tapping into a sonic continuum that stretches back to the city’s Afro-Cuban roots, through its common ancestry with the Afrobeat of Fela Kuti and the Fire Music of Pharoah Sanders and John Coltrane, and forward to cutting-edge artists with whom the PHJB have shared festival stages from Coachella to Newport, including legends like Stevie Wonder, Elvis Costello and the Grateful Dead and modern giants like My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire and the Black Keys.
Others
New Orleans' Sweet Emma and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1964)
New Orleans' Billie and De De and their Preservation Hall Jazz Band (1966)
New Orleans, Vol. 1 (1977)
New Orleans, Vol. 2 (1981)
When the Saints Go Marchin' In (New Orleans, Vol. 3) (1982)
New Orleans, Vol. 4 (1987)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Live! (1992)
In the Sweet Bye and Bye (1996)
Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, LA (1997)
Because of You (1998)
Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Duke Dejan (2004)
Shake That Thing (2004)
Sweet Emma (2005)
Songs of New Orleans (2005)
The Hurricane Sessions (2008)
New Orleans Preservation, Vol. 1 (2009)
Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program (2010)
American Legacies with the Del McCoury Band (2011)
St. Peter and 57th St. (2012)
That's It! (2013)
