My brother, Rick Naiser of Festival Studios was the sound engineer. He did not get credit-but it was the last big project that he had before he died. He had our parents in the audience to witness this.
It’s February 10, 2024. I’m sitting here completely enraptured. How is this just landing in my RU-vid feed 10 YEARS AFTER?!?! To think of all the years I could have been in this Heaven! 😩😭 Hugh, you never cease to entertain, delight, tickle, astound, and absolutely TRANSCEND me! Loveeeee this …and YOU…more than words can describe! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Don’t ever stop! 😃😍🤗👏👏👏
I know the feeling all too well. Here, we were raised on blackadder, jeeves and wooster, house and the like. My crush didnt need this kind of fuel...cause now its just "Gimme smeggin MOAR!!"
I know..... He's totally amazing at everything - what a whizz he is and amusing, entertaining, educational, funny, georgous hilarious ( please note I'm going through the alphabet.... So I will stop at the point which is... This man has everything!!! 👌
For a 64 year old man… he is possibly THE sexiest man alive. He can sing, play, dance, act, and is educated and well spoken with humor and grace. Younger men, take note here, we like men like this ❤
It’s February 10, 2024. I’m sitting here completely enraptured. How is this just landing in my RU-vid feed 10 YEARS AFTER?!?! To think of all the years I could have been in this Heaven! Hugh, you never cease to entertain, delight, tickle, astound, and absolutely TRANSCEND me! Loveeeee this …and YOU…more than words can describe! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Don’t ever stop!
I had the pleasure of seeing The Hugh Laurie Blues Band at The Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ, and I got all the way to the stage! I shared a thumbs up with his amazing back-up singer, and it was an amazing night! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!
This is totally unfair. This man has all the talents: Jazz and Blues and Rock'n roll music, he plays and sings like nobody else. He can do Classical as well. It's nothing but a delight to listen to him. He can be an actor, a story teller a jazz history teller, a tourist guide to take us around in N.O. Have never been there and now it's fairly late so I fully enjoy this session. Thank you so much for posting this.
So great to be there with this atmosphère thks to Hugh and all these guys and all of you included listeners... just great - keep on playing, singing and performing - wish i ' d be there
Saved this for times when I'm in a funk and need to get my life force circulating. So great that Hugh Laurie has this love and this talent. Thank you for appreciating precious New Orleans!
Incredibly blessed to have lived there for 23 years of my life. I feel I got life in me that I wouldn't have had otherwise. Go before it's gone. Nothing like it ever again.
OH BOY !!! Another full day of "WONDERFUL MUSIC"! I spent all day yesterday tapping my feet and fingers in heaven, regretting not taking my Grandmothers piano lessons!!! "Thanks again!
I've been watching Hugh Laurie for decades, and he never fails to impress, and for a Brit, he has the most perfect American accent I've ever seen. He can do almost anything, and never lose the semse of being himself. I think they call this 'multi talented". I call him amazing.
Hugh is white and I am from another Hemisphere ... What unites us beyond the color of our skin and a whole different universe, showing our soul and giving it a caress ...? Thanks to him and everyone who participated in this beautiful "journey" towards oneself ...
Its the First Octobre 2023 Im 22 years old and I do LOVE everythin directed to Jazz, Blues, Funk and that crazy ass boogie woogie. I got intoduced to Jazz about 6/7 years ago and I love it every since. I see this whole Documentation(?) as a masterpiece and I can feel this deep conection from Huge to Blues so hard that my heart is about to burst. I played about 5y drum (got lessons) now I bought me a Keyboard and am learing blues and boogie woogie since 3 Months. I do make progress but its rough. Really rough. But the FUN is sooooooo much bigger I cant stop- Playing the blues scale up and down to some backing tracks or play the bass notes of a classic boogie woogie is allready so much fun but I think I need a teacher sooner or later. I hope more people my age would like this music as much as I do! Edit: Hugh is so talented its crazy.
I Had NO idea this guy who, for all I knew played a sarcastic doctor on TV, had all these facets, what a talent . I love New Orleans, been there several times . This was a great tour .
I was kid fresh out of school sent to New Orleans on a job. Got off shift early evening. Found a cab, flipped a 50 and asked to be brought to hear real blues. Drove through swamps to a joint. Told me to stay in car. He was back in about 5 minutes. He took me in. Owner came and brought me to a front table. Stage of magic staring back at me. I gave the lady a 50 and said thank you. The blues cried the night. That was 1983.
You were so lucky to discover this music so young. I was in my 20's living in Houston before I heard true New Orleans jazz, it's stayed with me every since. I hope you have discovered Django Reinhart, Stephane Grappelli and the Hot Club as well, and the Romany Manouche guitarist, Angelo Debarre, also on RU-vid - he's unbelievable.
That's one of my a favourite music video, I like blues, I like an actor and great singer Hugh Laurie and all musicians singing in this movie. This movie has made very successfully. Great thanks for that fabulous pilgrimage!!!
Can this possibly be the same man who brought life to Bertie Wooster and Dr House? A national treasure in the UK along with his old 'Jeeves' partner Stephen Fry. They have so much talent between them that they could shift planets. Thank you, Hugh.
Hugh please please do more of these. This was a journey worth taking and I enjoyed every minute. Thanks to all the musicians and singers and to the one who brought them all together!
New Orleans is a country within a country. If someone blindfolded you and dropped you in the Quarter, you would think you were in Europe . Spain, France, Italy. The food isn’t just food. The mood is warm and welcoming. And the MUSIC sways in The Big Easy. Born and raised. I am so glad I came across this.
I'm also from a small city build on a swamp by the Spanish and then the French, filled with Italian heritage as well, not too far from Buenos Aires, Argentina (wich flooded pretty bad a few years ago) The CIA f us pretty bad with the 70s dictatorship but we still has some spirit left! and I'm truly in love with New Orleans, never been out of the country but that's the first place I'll pilgrim to! It's like our most beautiful cousin city!
If I ever get to visit the USA, i will definitely stop by. Love the music, the vibe. Greetings from a longtime Indian fan of Southern rock and blues...
Ya know my mother taught piano for over 80 years .She played a half hour of oldies but goodies in the old folks home at 97 .......I did Royal conservatory ..started Grade 10 and thru it all for an electric guitar .....Now that I am over the hill I regret my ditching the piano....Hugh Laurie has inspired me to return to the fold....like the returning son I know that those 4 hrs plus of practicing in Grade 9 should do me welll ...I play a lot of slide guitar but that piano of Hugh has returned me to the proverbial holy grail of music .the piano .... Thank you Hugh.
I'm a 72 year old Georgia resident who started going down and over to New Orleans at 15yrs when my parents took me there to the first of several Poultry Conventions. Pete Fountain was a favorite of that crowd. So when, as I was listening to this video featuring Hugh's New Orleans road trip I heard this statement, "New Orleans smells like funk.", I just fell out laughing. No truer words were ever spoken. That's exactly how New Orleans smells. But it's not the blues you're smelling. It's that damn Mississippi River. Delighted by this video. It's always uplifting to follow such enthusiasm as was seen here.
In 1966 I got out of the US Navy, and the first car I bought was a Ford Galaxy 500 XL, It had a 390 ci engine with 3 carbs and progressive linkage. The engine was from a former police chase car. Had an auto transmission and rear end, never had the money to convert it to a Hurst shifted 4 speed manual. Got it up to an "indicated" (and doubtful)150 mph once which scared the crap out of me as the suspension was crap as well. Had to sell it when I went back to school, it got only 12 mpg if I was behaving and @ 8 mpg if I was being naughty. By the way, love this video, not often I watch a RU-vid video this long, but as a lover of blues music I found this a fantastic thing to watch.
My dad would have loved this. Wish he was still around to enjoy it. Hugh Laurie is a HUGE talent… what an amazing and humble guy!!!🏆🎹🎷🥁🎻🎶🎵👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽✨💫💫💫
I can’t believe it took eight years for this to come across my RU-vid feed, but I’m so glad it did. I have always loved Hugh Laurie. He is the truest gem. ❤️
I’ve been ticked off at RU-vid for a while now, for various reasons. However, this recommendation may be one of the best things I’ve enjoyed this year. I grew up in New Orleans, many years ago. The music would pour from the open windows like honey. I love that city so much. There is so much beauty and heart amidst the pain of loss and rebuilding. This was an excellent job by everyone involved. I could have listened for hours. ⚜️⚜️⚜️
extraordinary performances, by an extraordinarily talented jazz and blues man, who REALLY knows how to " tickle the ivories"... And does it memorably.....
My folks took the family to New Orleans when I was 14. I was in love with it. Said it was the first place I wanted to go when I was of legal age! I wanted to get into the clubs we walked past. Been in love with the sound and place all this time. I'm 66 now
Well it is evening of Jab 1st 2024 and I listened this last hour plus to true blue jass with Hugh. I'm 76 years old and live in South Africa. Wgat a way to begin 2024. Yea!!!!!! Looooooove to all.
I had no idea Hugh Laurie played piano and loved the blues. My god. I cried all the way through SAINT JAMES INFIRMARY. My god. Great music. Thank you all. Great audio engineering work. Great (rich) photography. Incredible performers. Kudos all.
I knew he was an actor but, later heard he played an instrument. That house must have fallen down after all that blues rocked that venue. 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋🎶🎵🎼🎶🎵🎼🎹🎹🎹🎹
I was listening to this during writing and reading with a glass of wine and sometimes i stoped to enjoy completely the songs, just perfect moment, thank you for sharing it with us. Love from Belgium
Love him so much. He never fails to amaze me with his talents. I was lucky enough to have lived in New Orleans yrs ago way before Katrina. The music there was magical & everywhere. And the Mardi Gras was, in the the early Seventies, a big party, & a little safer then it is now. Hugh obviously loves it too.I knew he played jazz during a chat show in England. So this is a showcase of one of his many talents. Amazing & so fun. I love this.
Spring-fresh Sunday morning in Johannesburg and trolling the net to unearth the amazing talent of Hugh Laurie. Thank you for the tour and the wonderful music
I had no idea Hugh was this talented, and I have since spent a good deal of time researching his career. Hugh is talented across the whole spectrum of entertainment. Much of his work resides in his homeland, the British Isles. He deserves world wide attention because he is a generational talent. Thank you Mr. Laurie.
Or rather it allowed him. N O is a very peculiar city. Very peculiar. It marks you. Bewitchs you. God I love that place. However I do not like outsiders
What's wonderful is the COMMUNITY around jazz music - for the people who let themselves drawn to be into it, it's a special kind of home place for the heart and soul, above all in the blues.
Hugh Laurie, a 1959-er, like I am, and so is the beautiful Ford Galaxie 500. It must have been a good year for stepping out on to this planet. Thanks Hugh for this gem.
Hugh Laurie is a consummate show man ! He comes across as highly intelligent, with a quick wit and energised in every pore of his body ! Added to that is his educational background which gives him a firm base to a wide knowledge of the world which money and travel make possible ! He succeeds in compensating for his "old boy" public school background and reach a theatrical, "every man" attitude in his sketches and choices of roles! You do not feel, viewing him is a waste of time or that you have seen his material before, because, it is always fresh and spontaneous, since, he, himself, seemingly, produces his own quips as he goes along in a conversation . . . which are no doubt planned, generally, but, seem unrehearsed and spur of the moment . . . He has a good and unusual selection of facial expressions in his repertoire, which he uses very well and appropriately ! Without exaggeration, I can ´t praise enough, the entertaining videos I have seen !
What is so capturing for me, is this dude LOVES what he's doing. Just Look at that Fucking smile after each tune.....Sitting at FOH over 4 Decades, I would be a smiling doing this gig....Forever across the world spreading the love.......
Probably the single best thing I've experienced on RU-vid. What a treat. What a surprise. What a nice Saturday evening with Mr. Laurie. So glad he came to visit us.
Jeeeee-suhhhs, sweet heaven this was absolute bliss. Best Saturday night I've spent since 1988...the last time I was in the Crescent City. Oh the memories..............
As a fellow musician also born in 59 this videos struck every nerve in my body! More than nicely done. I t was magnificent! Sorry I am just now seeing this.......
Born and raised , drove dad's taxi at night. 40 yrs plus of live New Orleans Music and Hugh fit right in like he's been a pro there for decades. That's Exceptional!!!
Great music! I'm a 1958 vintage Brit and I love New Orleans music. I'm a sound tech and years ago I mixed a lot of live jazz, folk and other international music but I used to say to friends that often British jazz although high quality had just become too serious, it became an exercise in music just for an elite mainly and other musicians to appreciate rather than a form of musical entertainment. It lost what was fun about jazz. This was particularly noticeable in the 1980s when I lived in London with some famous jazz clubs not even allowing people to stand let alone move or dance. At that time I much preferred mixing visiting bands from America and other places: jazz, blues, country, Tex Mex, world music, etc etc, their competence was normally unquestionable and their easy going happy mood made for straightforward but professional sound checks, great gigs and happy times for all. All the best everyone.
