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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Preservation Hall Jazz Band Releases First Album Of New Compositions
8/30/2013 @ 11:04AMNew Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band has released its first recording of entirely original material as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.
Called “That’s It!,” the album features all-new compositions by band members Ben Jaffe, Charlie Gabriel, Rickie Monie and Clint Maedgen. Paul Williams; Dan Wilson, who writes for Adele; and Chris Stapleton also collaborated on several songs.
The recording is available as a CD, in MP3, and as a vinyl LP, which includes a poster.
It is the brainchild of Jaffe, tuba player and creative director of both the band and Preservation Hall.
The son of band and hall co-founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, Jaffe grew up in New Orleans, studied music at Oberlin College and returned to New Orleans in 1993 to play with the band.
After Hurricane Katrina—which shut the hall for several years—Jaffe went through the band’s archives, part of which were destroyed by Katrina. That experience and the band’s 50th anniversary (it was founded in 1961 by the Jaffes) “opened our minds to the idea of our responsibility to our community,” Jaffe said.
“All the musicians are from families that have been musicians for generations. Our clarinet player, Charlie Gabriel, is 81 and a fourth-generation player. He talks about learning from older musicians. What they do is not documented anywhere,” Jaffe said.
“All the great music our tradition comes from was new at one time. It’s part of our responsibility to make sure that what we are remains a living, breathing art form. We don’t want to become something that lives inside a museum, on a wall. We want to be part of people’s lives,” he added.
Read More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2013/08/30/preservation-hall-jazz-band-releases-first-album-of-new-compositions/
Called “That’s It!,” the album features all-new compositions by band members Ben Jaffe, Charlie Gabriel, Rickie Monie and Clint Maedgen. Paul Williams; Dan Wilson, who writes for Adele; and Chris Stapleton also collaborated on several songs.
The recording is available as a CD, in MP3, and as a vinyl LP, which includes a poster.
It is the brainchild of Jaffe, tuba player and creative director of both the band and Preservation Hall.
The son of band and hall co-founders Allan and Sandra Jaffe, Jaffe grew up in New Orleans, studied music at Oberlin College and returned to New Orleans in 1993 to play with the band.
After Hurricane Katrina—which shut the hall for several years—Jaffe went through the band’s archives, part of which were destroyed by Katrina. That experience and the band’s 50th anniversary (it was founded in 1961 by the Jaffes) “opened our minds to the idea of our responsibility to our community,” Jaffe said.
“All the musicians are from families that have been musicians for generations. Our clarinet player, Charlie Gabriel, is 81 and a fourth-generation player. He talks about learning from older musicians. What they do is not documented anywhere,” Jaffe said.
“All the great music our tradition comes from was new at one time. It’s part of our responsibility to make sure that what we are remains a living, breathing art form. We don’t want to become something that lives inside a museum, on a wall. We want to be part of people’s lives,” he added.
Read More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/janelevere/2013/08/30/preservation-hall-jazz-band-releases-first-album-of-new-compositions/
Friday, July 15, 2011
Music Review: Del McCoury Band and Preservation Hall Jazz Band...
By pmPilgrim, BLOGCRITICS.ORG
This is a truly remarkable album that is the best of both jazz and bluegrass. On American Legacies, the Del McCoury Band and The Preservation Hall Jazz Band come together to make MUSIC!
I have often described bluegrass as the "jazz" of country music, not because of any particular complexity, but due to its ensemble approach that features soloists improvising in breaks from the melody. The elements of both styles allows for variety that also breaks rules as often as they follow them. Chord changes and shared viruosity bring the listener of either genre into the center of the performance. You begin to listen for the changes, guessing and second-guessing the where the next solo will go. It becomes very participatory music.
The Del McCoury website talks about some of the other reasons why this collaboration is not unexpected. Both styles of music have, they say, "common roots in the rich musical gumbo of the American 
south in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...[with] a myriad of common influences and musical vocabularies."
south in the 19th and early 20th centuries ...[with] a myriad of common influences and musical vocabularies."
More to the point is the joy as this album brings to life some of the songs that have played in both genres for years. "Jambalaya" makes the combination sound so natural. It is almost a pure Dixieland beat. you feel that shuffle so common to the New Orleans style and want to march back down Bourbon Street. But the singers, Del and Ronnie McCoury, by that bluegrass twang, remind us that this was written by Hank Williams, Sr. It belongs to New Orleans and has its home in the country.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/blogcritics/article/Music-Review-Del-McCoury-Band-and-Preservation-1463661.php#ixzz1SC1J3CmU
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Preservation Hall Jazz Band brings history, sound of New Orleans music to Kittanning
By Rex Rutkoski, VALLEY NEWS DISPATCH
Preservation Hall is not just a singular entity.
The venue in New Orleans, the record label and the acclaimed international touring band all bearing the name do have a singular mission: showcasing and nurturing one of America's greatest indigenous national, cultural treasures -- New Orleans jazz.
"This music is American music. This is our history, something that all citizens can get behind, something we should all be proud of," says Ben Jaffe, who will lead the beloved, multi-generational group of musicians into Kittanning for a free riverside concert at 8 p.m. Saturday.
It promises to be a highlight of the season of Arts on the Allegheny performances at the Murtha Amphitheater in Riverfront Park, along the Allegheny River, says the organization's Mary Ann Valasek.
"We selected the Preservation Hall Jazz Band because they supported our mission of presenting high-quality, diverse entertainment here, and because they would provide a new experience for much of the audience," she says.
"A couple of our committee members have heard them perform in New Orleans at Preservation Hall, and we agreed that the lively, engaging style would be a real crowd pleaser -- something that just goes well with a summer night," Valasek says.
"Most people who know nothing about us or New Orleans jazz leave totally surprised at what they experience," says Jaffe, tuba and bass player and creative director of the band and venue, as well as son of Preservation Hall co-founders, Allan and Sandra Jaffe.
Complete on >> http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleynewsdispatch/s_691349.html
Friday, April 2, 2010
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Chiseling The Blues
by Marc Silver
In the bitter old blues song "Some Cold Rainy Day," the dumpee declares to the dumper: You will come back someday — when it's cold and rainy and you're old and sick and your stomach "hangs like an empty sack." Bertha "Chippie" Hill made the tune a hit in the 1920s, but now it's been reinvented as a 2010 stunner by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, with vocals by folk-rock singer Cory Chisel.
Chisel's rendition is featured on a new recording with a very long name that explains its purpose, Preservation: An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program. Many singers, young and old, perform with the famed New Orleans musicians. It's a gimmick, but the gimmick works.
The instrumentation here is traditional New Orleans jazz, cooked to perfection. In "Some Cold Rainy Day," a bluesy piano creates a gripping slow-drag framework. A tambourine rustles like a vengeful rattlesnake while a deep-throated tuba toots the pain of a busted heart. Now and then, a muted trumpet playfully improvises, as if it were the mocking voice of that runaway lover: "Betcha miss me!"
Set against this classic Crescent City accompaniment, Chisel's sweet, beat-up voice sounds achingly contemporary and more soulful than ever. Living up to his last name, he etches a portrait of a man who's fed up with the woman who walked out on him — while still holding out hope that she'll come crawling back someday.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125371350&sc=nl&cc=sod-20100402
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