Featuring an expanded lineup of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Shake That Thing is a joyous celebration of over 40 years of New Orleans jazz tradition. Adding such New Orleans jazz luminaries as trumpeter Leroy Jones, clarinetist Dr. Michael White, and drummer Shannon Powell, the band powers through several standards and raditional tunes that easily rate as some of the most raucous, funky, and happy tracks to come out of Preservation Hall. From Don Vappie's patois vocals on "Eh la Bas" to the gospel-meets-street beat of "His Eye Is on the Sparrow," most of the various New Orleans musical styles are covered here. This is relevant, rootsy jazz that deserves to be heard well beyond the confines of the institution it sprang from.
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...
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