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Date: Monday, 06 Aug 2012 15:18
Here to inform y'all that Preservation Hall is releasing their newest blog, The Preservation Hall Times!
ALL FUTURE Preservation Hall and Preservation Hall Jazz Band related news can be found @
Our Blogger account will be used for archive posts and previous news entries.
Visit the new page and let us know what you think!
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Date: Monday, 30 Jul 2012 14:48
Here is a great fan video from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band's performance at WGBH's Summer Arts Weekend in Boston. Big shout out goes to Alexander Ortiz Goico who filmed and edited the video! Thanks for your creativity and support!
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Date: Thursday, 26 Jul 2012 15:32
Entitled St. Peter and 57th (September 25th, Rounder Records), the album will feature a number of special guests from an assortment of genres including,Features guests such as George Wein, Del McCoury Band, Allen Toussaint, Ed Helms, GIVERS, Steve Earle, Tao Seeger, My Morning Jacket, Trombone Shorty, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), King Britt, Blind Boys of Alabama, and Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs
In commemoration and celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the iconic venue Preservation Hall, the prolific New Orleans jazz legends Preservation Hall Jazz Band are set to release a live recording of the band's acclaimed January 7th performance at Carnegie Hall.
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| Rehearsal--Photo by Howard Lambert |
The concert was orchestrated to benefit the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, directly supporting the passing of the musical and cultural traditions of New Orleans to the city's next generation of musicians. A portion of the proceeds from the album will also benefit the program.
The band is also sharing "St. James Infirmary, Part 1" featuring My Morning Jacket's Jim James, which just premiered on Pitchfork.
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Date: Monday, 23 Jul 2012 15:12
The Preservation Hall Junior Jazz Band performed at the Superdome this weekend at the ELCA Youth Gathering. The band opened for Switchfoot and performed to an audience of over 35,000 people. We couldn't be more proud of the PHJrJB!
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Date: Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012 11:35
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band just wrapped up several performances at this years Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. The band had an amazing performance on the festival's main stage with an excellent audience turnout! PHJB had special guests sit in during their set, including Jim James from My Morning Jacket and Andrew Bird.
Later that night, PHJB sat in with My Morning Jacket during the Festival's closing set.
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| Photo by Matt Jordan |
There was an after party once the festival wrapped up aboard the Belle of Louisville. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and My Morning Jacket performed to a sold out show. The energy aboard the Belle was tangible!
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Date: Monday, 16 Jul 2012 16:03
New Orleans Residents Get Free Admission for the 3rd Show, Wednesdays and Saturdays
Now through August 31st, Preservation Hall is proud to announce that New Orleans Residents have free admission to the third show on Wednesdaysd Saturdays. To take advantage of our summer special, bring your local ID or Entergy bill down to Preservation Hall, located at 726 St. Peter Street, in the Heart of the Quarter. Can’t make it in on a Wednesday or Saturday? We are still offering New Orleans Residents 2-for-1 admission, now through August 31st. It's the perfect opportunity to be a tourist in your own hometown.
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Date: Monday, 16 Jul 2012 11:14
Clarinetist, saxophonist, and flutist Charlie Gabriel is a fourth-generation jazz musician from New Orleans. Raised in a classically trained musical family that emigrated from Santo Domingo in the 1850s, Gabriel began playing clarinet professionally with the Eureka Jazz Band when he was eleven years old. During World War II, his father, clarinetist and drummer Martin Manuel Manny Gabriel often sent his son as a substitute on gigs. Charlie recalls how the musicians with whom he played ”T-Boy Remy, Kid Humphrey, Kid Sheik, Kid Shots, Kid Clayton, and Kid Howard” also raised him and brought him home after the gigs.
In a career spanning countless genres, Gabriel has performed with Tony Bennett, Frankie Avalon, Brenda Lee, Mary Wells, Aretha Franklin , Eddie Willis, Joe Hunter, and many other early Motown artists. Gabriel sums up the influence of his fellow musicians, "many, many people inside of me that I have rubbed shoulders with, and I got something from each one of them. It's all wrapped up inside of me, and by me still playing today and still able to go around the universe, I give to them all these other things I have from those that I have came in contact with"
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Date: Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 10:42
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Del McCoury Band are hitting the road soon for a string of exciting performances. They maybe passing through your town!
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Date: Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012 15:59
We've finally hit the middle of the Summer season, which means the Preservation Hall Jazz Band is well into tour season. Two exciting performances coming up are the Newport Folk Festival (7/28) and the Newport Jazz Festival (8/3). It is a rare opportunity for the Hall Band to perform both festivals. There will also be a performance by the Tao Seeger Brass Band, including members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
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Date: Tuesday, 10 Jul 2012 15:27
Our dear friend and bass drummer for the Treme Brass Band, Uncle Lionel Batiste, has passed away this past weekend. The Preservation Hall family misses Uncle Lionel and we send our condolences to his family and fellow Treme Brass Band members.
By Keith Spera of The Times-Picayune
Mr. Batiste was an iconic figure in the brass band community and the larger world of New Orleans music. With his omnipresent sunglasses, a wristwatch worn across his hand, and his kazoo, he literally moved to the beat of his own drum.
In the traditional brass band cap, white shirt and black tie, Mr. Batiste appeared in numerous commercials and TV shows, including HBO's "Treme." He was also featured on the 2010 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell's souvenir Congo Square poster by artist Terrance Osborne.
Many local musicians cite him as a role model. Trumpeter Kermit Ruffins has referred to Mr. Batiste as “my total influence,” who taught Ruffins “how to act, how to dress and how to feel about life."
“Inside Uncle Lionel’s bass drum," said fellow drummer Herman LeBeaux, "is the pulse of the city."
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Date: Tuesday, 03 Jul 2012 12:26
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The Stone Foxes
July 1, 2012
Stern Grove Festival
Better than: An afternoon listening to the drum circle in Dolores Park
The Stern Grove Music Festival is celebrating its 75th year, and it's hard to imagine much has changed in 2012. If you're a diehard music fan -- someone who craves a connection with the band on stage, wants to focus solely on the music and performance -- this isn't the experience for you. A show at Stern Grove is less about what's happening on stage, and more about your surroundings, what you've brought along, and who you're with. That is absolutely okay. Today, even the band recognizes there are more important things.
"It's good to be back," Ben Jaffe tells the Stern Grove crowd about five songs in. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band's current director (and tuba, sometimes upright bass player) reveals PHJB has played here since 1969. Today marks its first Stern Grove show in five years. Jaffe explains that his first Stern Grove experience was 1971; he is the son of the band's original founders (Allan and Sandra Jaffe), after all. But today will potentially be his last Stern Grove show. It's almost certainly his shortest.
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Date: Thursday, 21 Jun 2012 15:24
NOMA presents "Ralston Crawford and Jazz," an exhibition that considers the relationships between music, photography, painting, drawing and film as they intersect in Crawford’s work in New Orleans. Organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries, in Saint Louis, MO, the exhibition includes over 150 photographs, prints, paintings, drawings and films, many never before published.
WHERE Y'ART?!: OPENING CELEBRATION: RALSTON CRAWFORD AND JAZZ WITH DR. MICHAEL WHITE
Friday, June 22nd, 5pm to 9pm
THE RALSTON CRAWFORD AND JAZZ EXHIBIT will be open until October 14th.
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Date: Thursday, 21 Jun 2012 15:04
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“It’s my last time here,” he announced to the applauding crowd, which filled the Hollywood Bowl to the last bleacher. “And I’m gonna give you something you’ve never heard before. Take it back to the bridge!”
Cosby grabbed a trombone from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, who followed his order with upbeat, New Orleans-style jazz.
The comedian tapped his foot, held the instrument to his mouth, threw his head back — and abruptly pulled it into two pieces.
“Thank you!” he yelled, walking away.
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Date: Tuesday, 19 Jun 2012 12:16
