Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
Heureux Mardi Gras!
Tag: Jazz
Saturday Matinee Pre-Mardi Gras Edition – Tuba Skinny, Dr. John, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band & The Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Trad jazz band Tuba Skinny features bandleader Shaye Cohn on cornet. Performing and recording for over a decade, they’re branching out into jug band music, spirituals, country blues, string band music, ragtime, and New Orleans R&B.
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., aka Dr. John (1941-2019), was known for his mix of jazz, blues, R&B and soul flavored with New Orleans Mardi Gras, swamp rock and a pinch of voodoo. Gitcha gris gris gumbo ya ya.
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band formed in New Orleans in 1977, playing traditional jazz mixed with bebop, funk, R&B and soul, and resurrected classic Second Line rhythms.
New Orleans’ famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band was founded by Pennsylvanian Allan Jaffe in the early 1960s as a dixieland revival group, aimed at reviving the careers of the early jazz greats and preserving traditional jazz.
Nope, I didn’t forget. Here’s a story of Valentine’s Day in 1933.
While the missus is knocking down the remaining little heart-shaped confections tomorrow, I’ll be knocking back you know where.
Porch Time commences at porch time.
Tautochronous Hot Links
Moonlight Shuffle, Les Elgart & His Orchestra (1959)
After successful runs with several big bands of the 1940s, Les Elgart and his brother Larry formed their own orchestra with a distinctive brass-heavy sound. Their most recognizable recording, Bandstand Boogie, became the theme song to Dick Clark’s American Bandstand television show.
Ice.
The polar bears are doing just fine.
Bruce Lee vs. a Navy Seal instructor.
Ideal Astrobase [via Everlasting Blört].
The art of the hole [via Memo Of The Air].
New Hampshire and Maine prepare for war.
Calve’s Head dressed Turtle Fashion & other recipes
[via Thompson, blog].
Postcards of the Russo-Japan War [via Nag on the Lake].
[Top image: flipped Waffle found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Saturday Matinee – Tom Waits, Masa Takumi & The Nimmo Brothers
From FB: Tom Waits on Everything and Nothing
In September 1988, fresh off the release of his concert film Big Time, Waits sat down with music journalist Chris Roberts in a London recording studio. Captured on a rare cassette recording amidst ambient studio noise, Waits takes us on a journey from Stonehenge and the streets of New York to a surreal Hawaiian nightmare.
Grammy winner Masa Takumi (a.k.a. Masanori Takumi) is a Japanese artist, composer, songwriter and producer. A self-taught multi-instrumentalist, he learned trumpet at 8 years old, and by high school was playing drums, guitar, bass and piano.
In 1995 guitarists Stevie Nimmo and his brother Alan formed The Nimmo Brothers band in Glasgow. Performing here with Matt Beable on bass and Craig Bacon on drums.
Hope everyone survived the New Year’s festivities. We didn’t have as many fireworks or sirens as in previous years, and I take that as a good omen.
Porch season starts tomorrow and I plan to attend, rain or shinola.
Happy New Year’s Eve 2025 – End of Year Playlist
The end of a long year deserves a playlist to bring in the new one, so here’s a compilation of tunes that tugged on my earballs in 2025. Each set is in chronological order by date of recording.
Set 1 – January, February, March & April
Set 2 – May, June, July & August
Set 3 – September, October, November & December
I omitted seasonal tunes from the Halloween and Christmas playlists. Last year’s playlist (2024) is here, and the 2023 EoY list is here.
And one more thing:
May You Have a Happy & Prosperous New Year!
[Caveat: I don’t own the copyrights to any of these recordings. They are presented here for entertainment purposes only.]
Christmas Eve Rock
Bonus: Previously posted Christmas tunes can be found here.
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R. Crumb’s Jazz Record Find
Side A – Goofus, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928)Side B – Happy, Slim Lamar’s Southerners (1928) [R. Crumb‘s graphics found here via here.]
Grobianismic Hot Links
Eager Beaver, The Stan Kenton Orchestra (1956 version) First recorded in 1942 by Kenton’s Artistry In Rhythm orchestra, this version of Eager Beaver features Vido Musso on tenor sax and Maynard Ferguson on trumpet.
This.
Ronnie Spector hid the Beatles.
Spin cycle [via Everlasting Blört].
Paper Loops [via Memo Of The Air].
Building a castle [via Nag on the Lake].
Fighting with clothes [more at My OBT].
[via Thompson, blog].
[Image at top: Roman mosaic from somewhere, found here.]
From the Archives: 1 year ago. 5 years ago. 10 years ago. 15 years ago.
Labor Day 2025
Random tunes to burn your weenies, burgers and buns by.
Caveat: I do not own copyrights to these recordings and they are posted for entertainment purposes only.
[Image found in here.]
Saturday Matinee – Emmaline, The Teskey Brothers & Toby Lee
“Quite Like Me” is a diss track that I wrote to my friend’s EX-boyfriend. Now, I don’t write diss tracks often, but this guy was the absolute worst, folks — and that’s putting it in the nicest way possible!”
Vocalist, violinist and songwriter Emmaline has won much recognition for her jazz / torch song recordings and performances both on stage and on screen. I think this is one of the prettiest f-u songs I’ve ever heard. [h/t Octo.]
Josh Teskey (vocals, rhythm guitar) and Sam Teskey (lead guitar) formed The Tesky Brothers in 2008. Based in Melbourne, Australia, they faithfully resurrect the sounds of 1960s/70s soul.
Born in Oxfordshire England in 2005, Toby Lee played Zack Mooneyham in the New London Theatre production of School of Rock the Musical in 2016 and was named UK Young Blues Artist of the Year in 2018. Since then he’s shared the stage with the likes of Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons, Peter Frampton, Slash, Joe Bonamassa, and Jools Holland, and has a number one record to boot.
We didn’t have any junebugs this year, but the julybugs made a good show. I found some barfed up catfood next to the trash bin, and the neighbor got a new roof and a Solatube. I was informed that the word picnic is racist for some made-up reason, and tomorrow is porch time. See you around half past whenever.
Tacky Raccoons 