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Stooges Brass Band (@StoogesBB) “Why They Had To Kill Him” Part I at Men of...
#342 Stooges Brass Band Why They Have To Kill Him @ Men of Class 2012 (by John Shaw) The Stooges Brass Band play their tribute song to Joseph “Shotgun Joe” Williams as the Men of Class second-line...
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Stooges Brass Band (@StoogesBB) “Why They Had To Kill Him” @ Men of Class 2012
#343 Stooges Brass Band Why They Have To Kill Him @ Men of Class 2012 (by John Shaw) The Men of Class arriving at the Yacht Club on Broad Street at the end of their second-line, 10/21/12 (Source:...
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The Men of Class Second Line Ends at the Yacht Club
The Men of Class second-line comes to an end at the Yacht Club on North Broad Street, 10/21/12
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Waiting For The Parade in Treme
This year’s Satchmo SummerFest second-line was supposed to start at 12:30, but it didn’t, because the preceding jazz mass at St. Augustine’s Church ran long. While we were waiting in the hot sun,...
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Jairus Daigle and His Band Live at Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club @sljcnola...
My first stop was at the jazz showcase of Cutting Edge NOLA, which was going on at Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club on North Claiborne Avenue, a neighborhood venue that also serves as headquarters for the...
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From Zion City to 2nd & Dryades: The Lady Jetsetters Uptown with the Stooges...
Last year, the Lady Jetsetters second-line had started in the new apartments that replaced the Calliope projects, but this year the starting point was a placed called Ed’s Bar in a neighborhood to the...
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Kicking Off Mardi-Gras Day With The Jefferson City Buzzards and TBC Brass Band
It was my first Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans ever, but it was hardly the stuff of dreams. It was grey, dreary and overcast, a chilly 34 degrees with a wind-chill, and the announcer on the...
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The Brunswick Picnic and the Independent Order of Pole Bearers
The modern concept of life insurance did not come to the South until after the Civil War, and when it did come, the early Southern life insurance companies did not write policies for...
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Spending A Day with the TBC Brass Band in New Orleans
There are no second-lines during the summer, at least not the large, official ones sponsored by social aid and pleasure clubs, but that doesn’t mean that brass band activity dies down during the...
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Brunch on Full Blast and Murals in the Bywater
Sunday morning, Darren Towns and I headed over to yet another new breakfast spot in New Orleans, this one in a familiar location, 139 South Cortez in Mid-City which was the original location of the...
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