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... )

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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As I havn't done a shameless plug for my making funny noises with a slip-horn in a while, my August public appearances on trombone include ( Read more... )

The International Trombone Convention is in town here in New Orleans ( Read more... )

Any interested out-of-town friends and aquaintances will have a chance to hear me Monday morning playing with my latest group, "The Riverbend Radio Ramblers", similcast live on the web via the WWOZ 90.7 FM website, 10am -10:30 US Central Time this Monday the 21st.

We're playing for the radio beg-a-thon fund drive. It's a trad jazz band, consisting ( Read more... )