Rebirth Jazz Band - Here to Stay (1984, 1997)

→ Get the album at the usual place...

First in the second line

The album opens with a 19-minute track. It's titled “Mardi Gras Medley” so that those who wouldn't know anything about the Rebirth Brass Band understand where the group comes from and what kind of music is awaiting them.

The RBB was founded in 1983 by a bunch of school mates from the Tremé district of New Orleans lead by Phillip "Tuba Phil" Frazier, his brother bass drum player Keith Frazier and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins. As can be guessed from their name, they wanted to reanimate the New Orleans brass band tradition : the marching bands performing at funerals and “second line” parades.