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Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the name for numerous groups of traditional jazz musicians from New Orleans playing there and on tours as organized by Preservation Hall. The participants in the groups have varied during the years since the founding of the hall in the early 1960s.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band usually performs nightly at Preservation Hall and tours around the world for more than 150 days a year.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band is the name for numerous groups of traditional jazz musicians from New Orleans playing there and on tours as organized by Preservation Hall. The participants in the groups have varied during the years since the founding of the hall in the early 1960s.
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band usually performs nightly at Preservation Hall and tours around the world for more than 150 days a year. Hurricane Katrina, however, forced Preservation Hall to close through the fall and winter of 2005. Although the building remained shut until April 2006, the band continued to tour while the hall was closed.
Music groups performing at Preservation Hall predated the name "Preservation Hall Jazz Band". The late Allan Jaffe, a young tuba player who had taken over running the hall, organized tours for the musicians who often performed there, naming the band after the venue. He often played tuba in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. His son, Ben Jaffe, a double bass player and tubist, now leads and performs with the band.
The band has been touring the United States for more than twenty-five years. They seek to preserve the distinctive music that evolved in New Orleans and to bring it to contemporary audiences.
Although similar music sometimes is described now as "Dixieland Jazz", there are distinct characteristics of traditional New Orleans jazz that are not shared among performances often bearing the "Dixieland" label. The latter often is considered as commercial exploitation and distortion of a pure tradition and, therefore, a strict differentiation between the two is made by admirers of what they recognize as "New Orleans Jazz". One may find the term used among traditional New Orleans musicians prior to the change in perception.
The band made a brief appearance in the 1965 film The Cincinnati Kid, including a close-up of pianist and vocalist Emma Barrett.
In 2006, the band was awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Alphabetical lists of personnel
Current members (2009)
- Lucien Barbarin - trombone
- Mark Braud - trumpet
- Ben Jaffe - bass & tuba
- Leroy Jones - trumpet
- Ralph Johnson - clarinet
- Joseph Lastie, Jr - drums
- Carl Le Blanc - banjo
- Freddie Lonzo - trombone
- Clint Maedgen - vocalist
- Rickie Monie - piano
- Shannon Powell - drums
- Maria Wantanable - piano
Historic members
A partial listing of the musicians who have played under the "Preservation Hall Jazz Band" name includes:
Partial discography
- 2006 Preservation Hall - Live At the 2006 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
- 2005 Songs of New Orleans
- 2005 Sweet Emma
- 2004 Shake That Thing
- 2004 Preservation Hall Hot 4 With Duke Dejan
- 1998 Because of You
- 1997 Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, La
- 1996 In the Sweet Bye and Bye
- 1992 Live
- 1989 The Best of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- 1987 New Orleans, Vol. 4
- 1982 When the Saints Go Marchin' In (New Orleans, Vol. 3)
- 1982 New Orleans, Vol. 2
- 1977 New Orleans, Vol. 1
- 1966 Billie and De De Pierce and Their PHJB
- 1964 Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band
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