Keeping the Beat on the Street (34 page)

RECOMMENDED LISTENING

The following recordings provide a good overview of the brass band movement's evolution over the last thirty years or so.

Leroy Jones and His Hurricane Marching Brass Band of New Orleans
.
   Lo An. No catalog number. Recorded March 1975.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Live: Mardi Gras in Montreux
.
   Rounder. ROUN2052. Recorded July 1985.

Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band.
Street Music
.
   Jazz Crusade. JCDD-3080. Recorded November 1985.

Rebirth Brass Band.
Rebirth Kickin' It Live! The Glass House
.
   Special Delivery. SPDCD 1040. Recorded April 1990.

Tremé Brass Band. I
Got a Big Fat Woman
.
   Sound of New Orleans. SONO 1029. Recorded July 1990.

Soul Rebels.
Let Your Mind Be Free
.
   Mardi Gras. MG 1020. Recorded May 1994.

New Birth Brass Band.
D-Boy
.
   NYNO Music. 9604-Z. Recorded November 1996.

Paulin Brothers Jazz Band.
The Tradition Continues
.
   Self-produced. Released 1996.

1
. Quoted in Mick Burns,
The Great Olympia Band
(New Orleans: Jazzology, 2001), 212.

2
. Louis Armstrong,
Louis Armstrong, In His Own Words,
ed. Thomas Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 27.

3
. Quoted in Burns,
Great Olympia Band,
213.

4
. Tape-recorded interview, Tremé Oral History Project, Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Quoted in Helen A. Regis, “Second Lines, Minstrelsy, and the Contested Landscapes of New Orleans Afro-Creole Festivals,”
Cultural Anthropology
14, no. 4 (1999): 476.

7
. Regis, “Second Lines,” 474.

8
. Tape-recorded interview, Tremé Oral History Project.

9
. Quoted in Regis, “Second Lines,” 483.

10
. Regis, “Second Lines,” 496.

11
. Quoted in Association for Cultural Equity, Jazz
Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now,
videocassette, produced, directed, and written by Alan Lomax, American Patchwork—Song and Stories of America series, no. 101 (PBS, 1990; Vestapol Video, 1998).

12
. Louisiana Writers' Project,
Gumbo Ya-Ya,
compiled by Lyle Saxon (1945; reprint, New Orleans: Pelican, 1987), 395.

13
. Quoted in Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose, and Tad Jones,
Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music since World War II
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986), 12.

14
. Quoted in Burns,
Great Olympia Band,
28.

15
. Tony Scherman,
Backbeat: Earl Palmer's Story
(Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1999), 154.

16
. Tape-recorded interview, Tremé Oral History Project.

17
. Quoted in Burns,
Great Olympia Band
. 169.

18
. Ibid., 105.

19
. Ibid., 211.

20
. Tape-recorded interview, Tremé Oral History Project.

21
. Ibid.

22
. Ibid.

23
. Quoted in Burns,
Great Olympia Band,
194.

24
. Louisiana Writers' Project,
Gumbo Ya-Ya,
11.

25
. Tape-recorded interview, Tremé Oral History Project.

26
. Quoted in William Russell,
Oh, Mister Jelly! A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook
(Copenhagen: Jazz Media ApS, 1999), 106.

27
. Henry Glass, interview by Richard B. Allen, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University.

28
. Quoted in Scherman,
Backbeat, 17
.

29
. Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) with John Rummel,
Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of Dr. John the Night Tripper
(New York: St. Martin's, 1994), 17-18.

30
. Quoted in Burns,
Great Olympia Band,
123.

31
. Regis, “Second Lines,” 488.

32
. Quoted in Association for Cultural Equity,
Jazz Parades
.

33
. Helen A. Regis, “Blackness and the Politics of Memory in the New Orleans Second Line,”
American Ethnologist
28, no. 4 (2001): 755.

Adams, Daryl, 16, 24, 35, 62, 79

Adams, Gerald, 155

Adams, Justin, 155

Adams, Nasser, 23

Adams, Placide, 34, 37, 83, 84, 155

Agee, Stafford, 124, 136, 139

Alcorn, Alvin, 33, 43, 78

Alcorn, Sam, 33

Alexander, Adolphe “Tats,” 48

Alexander, Monty, 28

Allen, Henry “Red,” Jr., 128, 155

Allen, Henry, Sr., 149, 154

Allen, Lee, 77, 79

Allen, Shamar, 116

Almerico, Tony, 164

Anckle, Himas Floyd “Flo,” ii, 34, 37, 68, 96, 103, 143-44, 170, 181

Anderson, Gerry, 16, 59

Anderson, Keith “Wolf,” 38-39, 86, 59, 109, 110, 117-19, 124, 165-66

Andrews, Buster, 102

Andrews, Darnell, 102

Andrews, Glen, 116, 136, 140-41, 160

Andrews, James “Little Twelve,” Jr., 16, 39, 86, 97, 103, 121, 131, 160-63

Andrews, James “Twelve,” Sr., 97

Andrews, Lois, 97, 103

Andrews, Revert “Peanut,” 16, 39, 85, 102, 124, 136, 139, 140, 160-61, 165

Andrews, Troy “Trombone Shorty,” 87, 160

Armstrong, Louis, 1, 5, 20, 22-23, 28, 95, 127, 128, 130, 142, 157, 159, 175, 179

Armstrong, Lucille, 20

Austin, Kenneth “Eyes,” 36, 113

Badell, Frankie, 153

Banks, Isaac, 23

Barabino, Larry, 161

Barbarin, Charles, Jr., 16, 24, 44, 57, 62

Barbarin, Charles, Sr., 19, 24, 44, 57

Barbarin, Lucien, 16, 24, 26, 27, 28, 45, 57, 62, 98

Barbarin, Paul, 19

Barbera, Val, 164

Barker, Danny, 15-19, 22-24, 35, 37, 43-35, 51, 54-59, 61, 69-70, 74, 81, 95-97, 101-2, 123, 127, 130, 135, 151, 156, 160, 164, 179

Barker, Louise “Blue Lou,” 23, 54-55

Barron, Earl, 159

Bartholomew, Dave, 79, 90

Basie, Count, 82

Batiste, Aitken, 91

Batiste, Alvin, 25

Batiste, Arthur, 86

Batiste, Felicia, 86, 94

Batiste, Henry, 86

Batiste, Lionel, Jr., 100, 135

Batiste, Lionel Paul “Uncle Lionel,” Sr., 3, 37, 39, 75, 79, 82, 85, 87-93, 130-31, 137, 165, 178, 179, 185

Batiste, Mary, 86

Batiste, Milton, 3, 11, 35, 42, 51, 65, 108, 110, 119, 123, 128, 130, 135-40, 143-44, 146, 160-61, 178

Batiste, Norman, 86

Batiste, Othello, 149-50, 153

Batiste, Precisely, 86

Batiste, Quentin, 27-28

Bechet, Sidney, 1, 95, 165

Bering, Charlie, 27

Billington, Scott, 74

Bijou, Sam, 78

Black, Durel, 20

Black, James, 95

Blakey, Art, 70

Bland, Bobby Blue, 33, 78

Bocage, Edwin “Eddie Bo,” 79

Bonano, Sharkey, 90

Booker, James, 95

Boudreaux, John, 82, 92

Bourne, Sinclair, 151

Boutté, Lillian, 28

Breaux, Leroy “Boogie,” 135-36, 143, 164, 167

Brock, Jerry, 94, 103

Brock, Walter, 95, 98

Brown, Clarence, 79

Brown, Pud, 27-28

Brown, Sidney “Little Jim,” 87

Brown, William “Coby,” 51

Burke, Chris, 164

Burns, Dwayne, 38, 178

Burns, Mick, 3-4

Bush, George Herbert Walker, 112

Cagnolatti, Derek, 23, 44, 57

Cagnolatti, Ernie, 136, 140

Cahn, Jules, 51, 61, 97, 107

Callier, Elliott “Stackman,” 35-36, 141, 184

Calloway, Cab, 15

Campbell, Erskine, 136, 140

Campbell, Mervyn “Kid Merv,” 3, 10, 184

Carbo, Chuck, 23

Carmbs, Morris, 23

Carson, Al “Big Al,” 23-24, 58-60, 170

Celestin, Oscar, 2, 33

Charles, Buddy, 34, 37

Charles, Erving, 26

Charles, Frank, 9

Charles, Ray, 25, 67, 159

Charles, Rocky, 157

Chase, Dooky, 67

Chase, Leah, 8

Chatters, Maynard, 27

Clifton, Chris, 4

Cola, George “Kid Sheik,” 32, 46, 161, 164

Coleman, Ornette, 78

Coltrane, John, 70, 74

Connick, Harry, Jr., 28

Cook, Olivia Chariot, 26, 49

Cosse, Abraham, 136, 139-40

Costello, Elvis, 81

Cottrell, Louis, 22, 35, 43, 46, 83

Crawford, Paul, 51

Cruyt, Jacques, 28

Darby, Andrew, 15-16, 19, 23, 101

Davis, Gregory “Blodie,” 16, 24, 26, 36-37, 62, 69-76, 80, 82, 86, 99-100, 119, 144, 178, 181

Davis, Jerome, ii, 144

Davis, Miles, 70, 130

Davis, Quint, 76, 107, 181

Dejan, Harold, 16, 32, 35, 46, 50-51, 85, 91, 102-3, 119, 127-28, 130, 135-36, 146, 160, 167

Derbigny, Earl, 78

Desvigne, Sidney, 89

Dixon, Norman, 10, 181-82

Doe, Ernie K., 41

Dolliole, Milford, 135

Domino, Fats, 36, 66, 76, 79, 95, 97, 121

Dowe, Nat “Big Nat,” 6, 33, 37

Dupree, Jack “Champion Jack,” 99

Dutrey, Sam, 15

Eaglin, Fird “Snooks,” 98

Eddison, Harry “Sweets,” 28

Eisen, Irving, 51

Fauria, Edwin “Beansie,” 90

Fernandez, John, 66

Finola, George, 43

Ford, Clarence, 6

Ford, Thaddeus, 153

Foucher, Edmund, 35

Fountain, Pete, 49

Frank, Ed, 27-28, 75

Frazier, Barbara, 102

Frazier, Josiah “Cié,” 108

Frazier, Keith, 102, 108, 112-16, 118, 131

Frazier, Philip, 102, 108-111, 112, 118-19, 136

Freeman, David, 168

Freeman, Henry, 25, 62

French, Bob, 147

French, George, 147

Fuller, Curtis, 73

Gabriel, Charlie, 28

Gallaud, David, 139

Gardner, June, 26

Gaspard, Donald, 50

George, Michael, 83

Gibson, Banu, 27

Gilbert, John “Prince,” 166

Gillespie, Dizzy, 70, 81, 161

Glass, Henry “Booker T.,” 93

Glass, Nowell “Pa Pa,” 51, 136

Gomez, Lajoie “Butch,” 85-86, 164-67

Green, Andrew “Big Daddy,” 70, 80, 86, 101

Griffin, Johnny, 82

Grillier, David, 27, 34, 37

Guesnon, George, 93

Guichard, Emma, 88

Guilder, Rusty, 27

Hampton, Edwin, 49

Hancock, Herbie, 73, 137

Hardesty, Herbert, 79

Harris, David, 108

Harris, Kevin, 16, 26, 70, 82, 86

Harris, Lloyd, 49

Harris, Robert, 39, 175-76, 178, 186

Harrison, Donald “Chauncey,” 153

Henry, Clarence “Frogman,” 83

Henry, Corey, 86, 120-21

Hill, Beatrice, 93

Hill, Jesse, 160

Hillary, Sister Mary, 21-22

Hills, Jeffrey, 136, 184

Hingle, Cayetano “Tanio,” 124, 127, 131, 135-40, 166, 181, 185

Hooper, Frank, 149-50, 153

Hope, Red, 28

Houston, Matthew “Fats,” 24

Howard, Avery “Kid,” 83, 103

Howell, Jeannie Ann, 27

Hubbard, Feddie, 23, 70, 73

Humphrey, Percy, 46, 49

Humphrey, Willie, 46, 49

Hunter, Kerry “Fatman,” 124, 131, 136, 139-40, 166, 185

Jackson, Jesse, 43

Jaffe, Alan, 51, 91, 164

Jamal, Ahmad, 26

James, Kerwin, 85, 108, 110, 131, 146, 161-62, 165-66, 185

Jefferson, Andrew, 51, 85

Jefferson, Thomas, 26, 43, 161

Johnson, Ayward, 57, 114, 144

Johnson, Dwight, 59

Johnson, Edgar, 152

Johnson, George, 36, 176-77

Johnson, Howard, 73

Johnson, Magic, 25

Johnson, Michael, 62

Johnson, Noone, 87

Johnson, Raymond “Puppy,” 23, 57, 62

Johnson, Ronell, 144., 168, 172, 180

Johnson, Smokey, 79, 83

Johnson, Steve, 144, 168, 181

Jolly, Mark, 161-62

Jones, Annabel, 49

Jones, Benny, 3, 11, 35-39, 68, 71, 79, 83-86, 91, 108, 113, 137, 141, 148, 164-65, 177, 179, 181, 183-85

Jones, Chester, 83, 88

Jones, Eugene, 83

Jones, Joe, 165

Jones, Leroy, 16, 19, 21-29, 35, 39, 44, 50-51, 55, 57—58, 62, 69-70, 85, 98, 100, 161

Jones, Quincy, 28, 162

Jones, Tad, 61

Jordan, Kidd, 70, 72

Joseph, Charles, 16, 26, 34, 36-37, 70, 73, 80, 82, 86, 184

Joseph, Henry, 78-79

Joseph, John “Papa,” 46

Joseph, Kirk, 16, 26, 34, 36-37, 70, 73, 82, 119, 180, 184

Joseph, Waldren “Frog,” 36, 100

KeifFer, Ebria, 180

Kemp, Feddy, 35, 75, 79, 81

Kern, Blaine, 150, 153

Kerr, Clyde, Sr., 161

Kholman, Freddie, 83, 123

Kimball, Jeanette, 43

Kimball, Walter, 79

King, B. B., 33

King, Eddie, 5, 78

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 43

Knight, Jean, 69

Knowles, Richard, 2

Knox, Emile, 52, 92

Knox, Richard, 26, 82

Koeller, Reginald, 52

Lacen, Anthony “Tuba Fats,” 3, 5, 16-17, 24, 30-39, 44, 50, 58, 62, 70, 80, 86, 91, 97-98, 103, 110, 117, 136, 141-42, 162, 170, 177, 181, 183

Lambert, Joe, 26

Landry, George “Big Chief Jolly,” 99

Lastie, David, 98

Lastie, Walter, 79

Leary, Herb, 89

Leblanc, Bob, 151

Leblanc, Earl, 82

Leslie, Austin, 65-66, 93

Levigne, Carey, 49

Levin, Floyd, 20

Lewis, Al “Father Al,” 164

Lewis, Brian, 166

Lewis, George, 87, 96, 155

Lewis, Ramsay, 28

Lewis, Raymond, 41

Lewis, Roger, 36-37, 39, 70, 77-82, 86, 100, 119, 144, 184

Lewis, Smiley, 87-88

Longhair, Professor, 88, 95, 107, 158

Mallory, A.J. “Ajay,” 112