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| Early New Orleans brass band |
→ Thanks also to the late Blue DeVille...
Dr. John, who departed this world in June 2019 😢,
was a fascinating character ! Not only was he a great pianist, but he
was also a fantastic composer, arranger and producer, and he had the
most incredible and inimitable voice you could find. The words were
rolling around in his mouth as if he was swallowing a gumbo or munching
an oyster "po' boy" while singing ! Just listen to the way he pronounces
the word "limbo" on track three ! His kind of squeaking voice should
normally be hard to bear. Not with the Doc. Instead it's highly
captivating.
The old French city where slaves were entitled to sing, play percussion and dance on Congo Square on Sundays… The city where jazz is born, where rock'n'roll was born, where rhythm'n'blues was born, where funk was born… The city where unclassifiable musician Troy Andrews aka Trombone Shorty was born in 1986...
All from Nawlins
(except one... guess who)
► Snooks Eaglin - New Orleans Street Singer (1959/2005) : https://onurblues.blogspot.com/2022/02/snooks-eaglin-new-orleans-street-singer.html
→ Thanks also to the late Blue DeVille
→ Thanks also to the late Blue DeVille
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| The Big Easy... |
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| Art, Charles, Aaron & Cyril Neville |
The origins of the Neville Brothers as a band are intricately entangled with the history of several previous New Orleans groups where the brothers honed their trade : eldest brother Art's band The Hawketts in the 1950s; The Sounds, that became the house band for Allen Toussaint's Sansu label in the late 1960s, and later took the name The Meters; The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi-Gras Indian group led by their uncle George Landry aka Big Chief Jolly, whose backing band were the Meters until 1976 when they disbanded.