The Preservation Hall Jazz Band‘s continued revival just took a surprising turn: They’ve announced the release of a new album co-produced by their fan and collaborator of recent years, Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The album, That’s It will be the first in the group’s entire history to feature only original material. The venerable [...]
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Jazz Fest Photo Recap: Sunday, May 5, 2013
May 6, 2013 – 1:58 pm
The sun was shining, the Fairgrounds were soggy, and the music flowed on the last day of Jazz Fest 2013, Sunday, May 5. Highlights included extraordinary performances from Hall and Oates, the Black Keys, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews, Irma Thomas, Del McCoury and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Taj Mahal, the Meter Men and many [...]
Photo Op: B.B. King Woos Tipitina’s Crowd
January 21, 2013 – 6:45 pm
B.B. King at Tipitina’s — most expensive Tip’s show ever? At $100 per ticket, King’s show at Tipitina’s last night (January 20) was surprisingly well-attended. The Preservation Hall Jazz Band paved the way for the legendary bluesman, opening the show with one of its best sets ever as Clint Maedgen shared breath with Tao Rodriguez-Seeger [...]
Louisiana Music Timeline: November 9
November 9, 2012 – 2:41 pm
NOVEMBER 9 1880: Birth of trombonist Bill Gallaty, Sr. born in New Orleans. Worked with the Reliance Brass Band. 1908: Birth of saxophonist Ernest Poree born in New Orleans. Was a member of the George Williams Brass Band. 1965: Happy Birthday to alto saxophonist Jesse Davis born in New Orleans. 2006: Ben Jaffe and his [...]
Now Streaming on OffBeat’s Look-Ka Py Py Podcast
November 1, 2012 – 12:38 am
Vibing with Jason Marsalis “A lot of that music bores me,” says drummer and vibraphonist Jason Marsalis. Specifically, he’s referring to an overtly complex style of modern jazz that he feels has reduced the form to frivol. In this episode, he takes us inside his most recent project In a World of Mallets, which features [...]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, St. Peter and 57th Street (Rounder Records)
October 1, 2012 – 12:58 am
It’s a bit strange that the Preservation Hall Jazz Band would go out of town to throw their own birthday party, but they might as well do it in New York City, the “other” strangest and least American of American cities. They don’t bother with New York-isms, though — this night they celebrate themselves, and [...]
Preservation Hall Jazz Band, The Preservation Hall 50th Anniversary Collection (Sony Legacy)
October 1, 2012 – 12:46 am
Ever since taking the reins of operating Preservation Hall — New Orleans’ shrine to the sources of music that coalesced into the earliest form of jazz — artistic director Ben Jaffe, son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe, has insisted it is entirely possible to change the band lineup, change the band’s repertoire, change performance venues [...]
Preservation Hall West Opens in San Francisco
October 1, 2012 – 12:08 am
Ben Jaffe sits in the rear office behind Preservation Hall. The Hall’s director — and son of Allan and Sandra Jaffe — is looking out the window, past the courtyard, his gaze drifting into space, crystalline blue eyes glittering in reflected daylight. “It’s always been my dream,” he says, “to create an outpost somewhere in [...]
Look-Ka Py Py Podcast (ep 4): Preservation Hall Marches Forward
September 21, 2012 – 4:07 pm
Preservation Hall — the French Quarter building at 726 St. Peter Street — hasn’t changed much through the years. The sound of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, hasn’t either — as it shouldn’t. Recently, however, Preservation Hall — the institution — has undertaken one of the most successful and significant transformations in New Orleans music [...]
New Orleans Goes to Newport Jazz Festival (Photos)
August 13, 2012 – 6:17 pm
The birthplace of jazz met the birthplace of the jazz festival on Friday, August 3 when the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Dr. John’s Lower 911 Band performed at the Newport Jazz Festival’s opening night concert at Newport Casino, home of George Wein’s first festival back in 1954. More than 3,000 turned out for the [...]
