Rebuilding New Orleans One Song At At Time
- By LISA WILTON, CALGARY SUN – Quitting your decent-paying job on a whim to pursue a career as an underpaid musician isn’t the most responsible of life choices. But when Stevie Wonder encourages you to do it, who’s to argue? That’s the situation John Boutte found himself in almost 25 years ago. The New… [Continue Reading]
Jazz performers join to help other musicians survive tragedy – By JOHANNA CROSBY – Award-winning singer-songwriter Paul Sanchez of New Orleans was ready to bring a celebratory spirit to his debut performance at the Provincetown Jazz Festival. It’s been five years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged his city, “and things were starting to come along nicely,”… [Continue Reading]
- By Alana Semuels, Los Angeles Times July 28, 2010 | 7:18 p.m. Reporting from New Orleans — Ben Jaffe, the tuba player and creative director for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, was sitting in his Faubourg Marigny house one spring morning, drinking fresh-brewed New Orleans chicory coffee and worrying about the oil spill. He… [Continue Reading]
- John Swenson – 1907 Jourdan Avenue is situated just past the east wall of the Industrial Canal. Shamarr Allen recalls growing up there, practicing his trumpet at home with encouragement from his father and Kermit Ruffins. Playing with his childhood friend Dinerral Shavers, buddies so close people thought they were brothers. But like so… [Continue Reading]
Bridging the Gap – Jacob Leland – Shamarr Allen is a born front man, the kind of artist who embraces a showy star turn. Throughout his career performing and recording with brass bands, jazz ensembles, and his recent funk-rock projects, listening to Allen perform has meant hearing his sensibilities and his powerful trumpet drive a… [Continue Reading]
The Rites of Man – Jacob Leland – The Rites of Man is the debut album from the Tom Paines, the latest incarnation of veteran New Orleans jacks-of-all-musical-trades Alex McMurray and Jonathan Freilich. They’ve collected folk songs from throughout the English-speaking world in the decades surrounding the turn of the 19th Century into the 20th…. [Continue Reading]
- by Paul Sanchez – I met Shamarr at an in-store in Louisiana Music Factory Jazz Fest 2006. I was still with the Mouth and he was still with Rebirth. They were playing after the Mouth set, and during our set I sang Randy Newman’s “Louisiana, 1927,” and Shamarr got up and joined me on… [Continue Reading]
The Tom Paines Rites of Man (Threadhead) – By Noah Bonaparte – Alex McMurray and Jonathan Freilich together form a Rosetta Stone of modern New Orleans music. This is due not just to the depth of their quality collaborations — Royal Fingerbowl, Tin Men, 007, Valparaiso Men’s Chorus, Mirlitones and Jackals, to name a few… [Continue Reading]
Paul Sanchez and Chris Joseph discuss Threadhead Records and the benefit single “Nobody Knows Nothin’” on The Mike Nowak Show on WCPT 820 am Chicago, IL. July 25, 2010
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