I'm enjoying the music of early New Orleans jazz trombonist Emile Christian on his birthday.

Wikipedia: Emile Christian

Music samples (via YouTube except where otherwise noted):

Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 1919: Satanic Blues (Christian is listed as co-composer)
Ditto Lassus Candy
Ditto, 1920 Soudan One of the pseudo-Near Eastern numbers ( Read more... )

Yeah, Tuesday was Mardi Gras! After spending the last two Fat Tuesdays Uptown, I again had did Mardi Gras Downtown ( Read more... )

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Unusual fun band with "Steam Punk" theme, COG The Confabulation of Gentry SteamCOG

We had our shakedown performance at Gallier Hall (New Orleans old City Hall) Sat night.

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New Orleans Magazine: Steppin' Back: The golden days of dance hallsI had the pleasure of going to a private event (musician friend's wedding reception) at the 2nd Luthjen's with live jazz last weekend. Could be a nice venue again if they can get permitted ( Read more... )

( Illustrated account of some things I've been up to recently )

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Hollie and I went down to the Marigny just after 5pm, got a good parking place, and enjoyed a meal at Tomatillos. Then over to the ARRR Barr for the "Pyrate Parade". There were 2 bands. I was playing in the Pirate Band brass band mostly recruited from the Pair-O-Dice Tumblers and BEAR/MOMs Band. The other was The Noisician Coalition with wacky ( Read more... )

The other day I got together with some musicians to rehearse a couple numbers for the Easter parade. Between us. we remembered the tunes of "Easter Parade" and "Here Comes Peter Cotton Tale". When we tried playing "Peter Cotton Tail", the lead trumpet counted it off too slow, but we kept going, playing it as a funeral dirge, then kicking it off as ( Read more... )

mshollie and I enjoyed our weekend. Saturday afternoon we had a late lunch at Juan's Flying Burrito; I had the jerk chicken burrito and Hollie a quesadila. Ms. Hollie had been craving a mojito-- as we knew Juan makes better burritos than mojitos, we went over to St. Joe's Bar on Magazine Street afterwards-- but apparently they aren't open in the day time ( Read more... )