Segment 1: Traditional Jazz Today! (20:33)

For use in Lesson #1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To go to a specific chapter, slide the elapsed time indicator in the video screen to the timing point shown for that chapter below.

Chapters

1. Opening and New Orleans scenes (0:00)

2. Olympia Brass Band, funeral parade (0:39)

3. Preservation Hall Jazz Band (2:27)

4. Fireworks (jazz band) (3:21)

5. New Black Eagle Jazz Band (4:00)

6. Greg Stafford/Michael White (4:57)

7. Hot Jazz Band (5:28)

8. Yerba Buena Stompers (6:06)

9. Jazz Band Ball Orchestra (6:37)

10. Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band (7:22)

11. Boilermaker Jazz Band (8:01)

12. Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers (8:45)

13. Climax Jazz Band (9:57)

14. Jim Cullum Jazz Band (10:31)

15. Raisin Babies (youth group) (11:15)

16. The Real Deal (youth group) (12:03)

17. Barkin’ Dawg Jazz Band (youth group) (12:42)

18. Caroline Frommel (young clarinetist) (13:08)

19. Muskrat Ramblers (youth group) (14:14)

20. 51st Eight (youth group) (14:36)

21. Baby Boyz Brass Band (14:56)

22. UCD Claim Jumpers (youth group) (15:33)

23. Wasabi Stompers (youth group) (16:04)

24. STJS Trad Jazz Camp scenes; Back Alley Strutters (youth group) (16:45)

25. Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival scenes; Capital Focus Jazz Band (youth group) (17:54)

26. Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit overview (18:34)

27. Marsalis Family (19:05)

 

A detailed description/transcription of this video segment follows for reference

Dave Robinson narration: Hey, I’m Dave Robinson, the producer of this kit, and I want to introduce you to the kind of music that comes from New Orleans. You know, there’s lots of different ways to play jazz, but the New Orleans approach is something special. The beat, the excitement, the sound of several horns improvising together, having a conversation…it gets right to the heart of things.

New Orleans scenes

New Orleans is famous for its jazz funerals. A brass band leads a parade to the cemetery, improvising slow hymns. After the deceased is buried, it’s time to let loose! The band takes to the streets, playing uptempo jazz while folks form what we call a “second line” and let the music overtake them. This is where the traditional sound of horns improvising together comes from. Now I want you to turn up the volume and put yourself in the “second line” of this jazz funeral parade for a minute, and feel the power of this music.

Olympia Brass Band plays “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “It Ain’t My Fault”

This sound of collective improvisation can be heard in bands that play indoors for listening and dancing in New Orleans. This kind of music is part of the daily life of that city. Preservation Hall is a famous hotspot for traditional New Orleans jazz.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays “Panama”

The New Orleans way of playing jazz has taken hold all over the world. Folks have come up with a variety of stylistic approaches that are all based on the traditional New Orleans sound. Here’s some hot bands I want you to check out. Let’s just listen for awhile.

Fireworks plays “High Society”

New Black Eagle Jazz Band plays “Weary Blues”

Greg Stafford/Michael White play “Independence Blues”

Hot Jazz Band plays “We Don’t Need Any Beauty for Love”

Yerba Buena Stompers plays “Sage Hen Strut”

Jazz Band Ball Orchestra plays “Indiana”

Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band plays “Mad Dog”

Boilermaker Jazz Band plays “You Always Hurt the One You Love”

Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers plays “St. James Infirmary”

Climax Jazz Band plays “Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie”

Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays “She’s Crying For Me”

Young people play this music too! Give a listen to some of the hot young players who are working within the New Orleans tradition.

Raisin Babies plays “Bourbon Street Parade”

The Real Deal plays “I’ve Found a New Baby”

Comments by Marques Crews: “I’ve been playing this for about five years now…I love to play other kinds of music, I like to play bebop and modern jazz and free jazz and all that, but traditional jazz is sort of like my dessert, you know; it’s fun, and this festival is really fun. I love it.”

Barkin’ Dawg Jazz Band plays “Emperor Norton’s Hunch”

Caroline Frommel plays blues

Comments by Caroline Frommel: “My name is Caroline Frommel, and I moved to New Orleans from Sweden one year ago to start at UNO, at the jazz performance line, and it’s been my dream since I was 10 years old to come to New Orleans and play New Orleans music. I love New Orleans jazz because it is such moving music, and it’s got the rhythm, and it just swings, the music just makes you very happy.”

Muskrat Ramblers plays “Hello Dolly”

51st Eight plays “Dinah”

Comments by Bria Skonberg: “I like traditional jazz better because it’s so uplifting, it’s energetic, and it’s just great. It’s great, yeah.”

UCD Claim Jumpers plays “Tight Like This”

Baby Boyz Brass Band plays “I’ll Fly Away”

Comments by Dwayne Waples: “I like the energy, I like the energy of the New Orleans music… the hype… everybody loves this music. It’s great music. As far as the future, going—as far as school and all that, we can’t really tell right now. But we’re hoping that it will stick together.”

Comment by Glenn Hall III: “Hopefully we’ll be together forever.”

Baby Boyz Brass Band plays “Bourbon Street Parade”

Wasabi Stompers plays “Out of Nowhere”

Comments by Gordon and Brandon Au:

Gordon: “Well, this music is just a whole lot of fun, that’s why we’ve been doing it for a while—not too long because we’re so young, but it’s a lot of fun and you meet really interesting people.”

Brandon: “It really helps get that creative part of your brain working, because of the communication you have to do with the rest of the band.”

Gordon: “Yeah, it’s just one of the greatest forms of music around.”

Some of these young players have attended various summer jazz camps that specialize in teaching traditional jazz. Sacramento California hosts one of these camps.

STJS Trad Jazz Camp scenes; Back Alley Strutters (camp band) plays “South Rampart Street Parade”

Sacramento also hosts the annual Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival, where young bands play for fun and prizes.

Traditional Jazz Youth Band Festival scenes; Capital Focus Jazz Band plays “The Second Line”

The Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit is going to show you how you can get in on this music. You’ll see that there are various styles of traditional jazz which all stem from the New Orleans way of playing. The kit includes lesson plans incorporating video masterclasses, videoclips of some of the giants of jazz, a sampler of great recordings, music arrangements for you to play, and more. I hope you and your music instructor have fun exploring this music. I’ll leave you now with this.

The Marsalis Family plays “Struttin’ With Some Barbecue”

 

Performance Clip Details

Ch.1: Wynton Marsalis with the Liberty Brass Band (audio), “Cornet Chop Suey”, 1995: Wynton Marsalis trumpet, Dr. Michael White clarinet, Wycliffe Gordon trombone, Eric Reed piano, Kirk Joseph sousaphone, Herlin Riley drums

Ch. 2: Olympia Brass Band, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “It Ain’t My Fault”, 1990: personnel includes Milton Batiste trumpet, Harold Dejan alto sax, Freddie Lonzo trombone, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews trombone, Edgar Smith sousaphone, Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen sousaphone, Barry Martyn snare drum

Ch. 3: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, “Panama”, 2000: Wendell Brunious trumpet, David Grillier clarinet, Frank Demond trombone, Rick Monie piano, Narvin Kimball banjo, Ben Jaffe bass, Joe Lastie drums

Ch. 4: Fireworks, “High Society”, 2002: Simon Stribling cornet, Jo Stevenson clarinet, Don Stewart trombone, Ben Johnston piano, John Scurry banjo, Mark Elton bass, Ian Smith drums

Ch. 5: New Black Eagle Jazz Band, “Weary Blues”, 1990: Tony Pringle cornet, Billy Novick clarinet, Stan Vincent trombone, Bob Pilsbury piano, Peter Bullis banjo, Eli Newberger tuba, Bill Reynolds drums

Ch. 6: Greg Stafford/Michael White, “Independence Blues”, 2000: Greg Stafford trumpet, Dr. Michael White clarinet, Wendell Eugene trombone, Bill Huntington banjo, Gerry Adam bass, Barry Martyn drums

Ch. 7: Hot Jazz Band, “We Don’t Need Any Beauty For Love”, 2002: Tamas Benyei cornet, Laszlo Fodor clarinet, Zsolt Bera trombone, Robert Szili banjo, Zoltan Juhasz bass, Istvan Galbacs drums

Ch. 8: Yerba Buena Stompers, “Sage Hen Strut”, 2002: Leon Oakley trumpet, Duke Heitger trumpet, Larry Wright clarinet, Tom Bartlett trombone, Marty Eggers piano, John Gill banjo, Ray Cadd tuba, Clint Baker drums

Ch. 9: Jazz Band Ball Orchestra, “Indiana”, 1992: Jan Kudyk trumpet, Jacek Mazur clarinet, Marek Michalak trombone, Wojtek Groborz piano, Tolek Lisiecki bass, Zdzislaw Gogulski drums

Ch. 10: Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band, “Mad Dog”, 2002: Bert Barr cornet, John Goodrich clarinet, Paul Woltz alto saxophone, Don Stone trombone, Rose Marie Barr piano, Al LaTourette banjo, Art Horgen sousaphone

Ch. 11: Boilermaker Jazz Band, “You Always Hurt the One You Love”, 2000: Dave Robinson trumpet, Paul Cosentino clarinet, Gerry Gagnon trombone, Jay Cosentino piano, Dan Davisson banjo, Ernest McCarty bass, Rich Strong drums

Ch. 12: Kermit Ruffins and the Barbecue Swingers, “St. James Infirmary”, 1997: Kermit Ruffins trumpet, Corey Henry trombone, Emile Vinette piano, Kevin Morris bass, Jerry Anderson drums

Ch. 13: Climax Jazz Band, “Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie”, 2002: Mick Collins cornet, Brian Ogilvie tenor saxophone, Len Gosling trombone, Jack Vincken banjo, Chris Daniels bass, Jamie Aug drums

Ch. 14: Jim Cullum Jazz Band, “She’s Crying For Me”, 2002: Jim Cullum cornet, Ron Hockett clarinet, Kenny Rupp trombone, John Sheridan piano, Howard Elkins banjo, Don Mopsick bass, Mike Waskiewicz drums

Ch. 15: Raisin Babies (youth group), “Bourbon Street Parade”, 2001: Julian Herrera trumpet, Colin Burgess soprano saxophone, Richard Valenzuela tenor saxophone, Ian Johnson piano, Mark Shaver guitar, Randy McDonald sousaphone, Scott Shaver drums

Ch. 16: The Real Deal (youth group), “I’ve Found a New Baby”, 2002: Marques Crewes trumpet, Julie Quinones clarinet, Jeff May tenor saxophone, James Calentino trombone, Kevin Woody piano, Matthew Morrow banjo, Daniel Kelley tuba, Mike Levitsky drums

Ch. 17: Barkin’ Dawg Jazz Band (youth group), “Emperor Norton’s Hunch”, 2002: Rikki Nishimori trumpet, Mike Rocha trumpet, Brendan Benapfl clarinet, Katie Waters tenor saxophone, Lance Gardenhire trombone, Steven Harreld piano, Joshua Halecky banjo, Priscilla Ornelas tuba, Dash Worfolk drums

Ch. 18: Caroline Frommel (young clarinetist), blues, 2001: with Brandon Brunious guitar

Ch. 19: Muskrat Ramblers (youth group), “Hello Dolly”, 2002: Raul Gonzalez trumpet, Tara Hansen clarinet, Sarah German tenor saxophone, Heidi Willems trombone, Jonathan Enns banjo, Dande Matusalem sousaphone, Omar Edralin drums

Ch. 20: 51st Eight (youth group), “Dinah”, 2002: Bria Skonberg trumpet, Colin Farquhar clarinet, Evan Arntzen tenor saxophone, Lukas Matheson trombone, Vashti Gray piano, Josh Roberts banjo, Brock Rutley sousaphone, Jeremy Roberts drums

Ch. 21: Baby Boyz Brass Band (youth group), “I’ll Fly Away” and “Bourbon Street Parade”, 2010: Glenn Hall III trumpet, Chris Birdsong trumpet, Dwayne Waples tenor saxophone, Caleb Windsay trombone, Jerome Steib trombone, Desmond Provost sousaphone, Glen Finister snare drum, Jenard Andrews bass drum

Ch. 22: UCD Claim Jumpers (youth group), “Tight Like This”, 2002: Steve Illich trumpet, Ryan Powell clarinet, John Battista tenor saxophone, Jon Braddy trombone, Adam Revell piano, John Mumford banjo, Joel Van Horne guitar, Tryque Schneider drums

Ch. 23: Wasabi Stompers (youth group), “Out of Nowhere”, 2002: Gordon Au trumpet, Peter August tenor sax, Brandon Au trombone, Brett Inenaga piano, James Rogers bass, Adrian Dokey drums

Ch. 24: Back Alley Strutters (jazz camp youth group), “South Rampart Street Parade”, 2006: Justin Au trumpet, Glenn Rivera clarinet, Josiah Boornazian tenor saxophone, Matthew Bowman trombone, Zeke Victor piano, Keith Penney guitar, Georgia Korba bass, Pete Agraan drums

Ch. 25: Capital Focus Jazz Band (youth group), “The Second Line”, 2006: Ben Hankle trumpet, Alex Poetzschke clarinet, Juna Winston trombone, Jake Harper piano, Greg Englar banjo, Liz Prince tuba, John Voigt drums

Ch. 27: The Marsalis Family, “Struttin’ With Some Barbecue”, 2001: Wynton Marsalis trumpet, Branford Marsalis soprano saxophone, Delfeayo Marsalis trombone, Ellis Marsalis piano, Roland Guerin bass, Jason Marsalis drums