This is just *too* good.The *Preservation Hall Jazz Band* plays the Kinks' "*Complicated Life*":http://www.preservationhall.com/video/index.htm. (A link to the PHJB's page, which includes the video.)And it's a great video; a quick, rather surreal video tour through the Quarter.
First, a quick story: A house down the street from the Roy's, still on Soniat street, was being worked on by a small crew of contractors. During a break Amanda and I walked down the street and met them. They were completely renewing the inside structure of an old house and were doing well with what little crew they had. One waved to us and we struck up a conversation about the directly behi...
Last Friday night, my girlfriend and I went to see the Preservation Hall Jazz Band from New Orleans in her hometown (I live in Ft. Wayne, she lives in Huntington about 45 minutes away). The concert was AWESOME! Those old jazz fellas really know how to swing. They also had some street performers with them: a young guy on guest vocals and some clowns doing some schtick before and after the sho...
Jazz was born in New Orleans. True story. Anybody who'll try to tell you otherwise just doesn't know. See? Wikipedia agrees.Dixieland music is a style of jazz. Dixieland developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century, and spread to Chicago and New York City by New Orleans bands in the 1910s, and was, for a period, quite popular among the general public. It is often considered the...
This Saturday, October 24, 20009 we will convene a Second Line led by the illustrious Maestro Clint Maedgen, featuring members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The Second Line is being staged as part of the local underground feature film “Flood Streets” celebrating the defiantly life-affirming culture of New Orleans in general and [...]