Just A Closer Walk With Thee - Doreen´s Jazz (Doreen Ketchens) - New Orleans 

Thank you for sharing your story! I love to read personal impressions and experiences! Yeah, hope her music still accompanies to your present adventure :-)

This needs to be pinned - what a legend! Thank you for sharing!

Your work?

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Doreen who?? Is she on RU-vid

Disbounded x watch the clarinet player from Switzerland play Jingle Bells. I was blown away.these two are really talented💚

Be inspired! But I know exactly what you mean.

I am surprised the better ones isn't Asian (it's a joke, just in case😅)

Well that's an overused joke

She's not just first chair... she's ALLL the chairs

Lol that's what I like about the tuba is that you can play other instruments at the same time

Ophis tuba: any valve instrument.

It's a tuba

It’s a SOUSAPHONE!

@@yeeturmcbeetur8197 not a trumpet really you need the other hand to kick that slide out for the D's

Towards the end, that one note she must have held for almost 2 minutes. She has amazing lungs and carries herself so well. I'd pay her and the tuba player along with the drummer to record the old songs that jazz was playing back in the 30's and 40's. I wouldn't care about the cost or if the recording made money, it would be an honour to have Doreen record songs that I grew up with and listened to most of my life.

I also saw her playing in NO. Her singing and playing is amazing.

Because she is GOD***

Yesss beautiful amazing & very talented she's truly mastered the art of rockin the clarinet. Took me over a year to be able to play altissmo notes successfully without squeaks I'm still learning with along way to go. This just fuels my inspiration 💖

Yep, that´s what I always to see...and I wanted to see a funeral...;-)

nemo227 Nobody cares about cali. This post is about the SE

DJRU2 Good luck to come back alive.

***** Sorry, but that's just not true. You think wrong. I'm not knocking California, I think the state is absolutely beautiful. Just wish your ocean waters were warmer...freezing, even in August.

AnAscendingAngel I would like to spend time in Nola how is it? Race wise, is the weather that bad? And can you fill up a day with activities there, I heard it's so small?

Absolutely, had to visit NOLA again in 2015 for Mardi Gras and for Doreen ;-)

She made me cry

Right!

+Richard Winston I was thinking the same thing. she's outstanding on that clarinet!

with anybody, anywhere. True dat

Gift or... practice and hard discipline (she studies too much for that)

I think she’s today’s Louie Armstrong.?.

A trumpet player 😒 😋

did you mean: the instrument that over powers the rest of the band

Exactly, They're fantastic.

Kerry Taylor Kanye West.

NEVER LUCKY Louis Armstrong actually studied Larry Shield's clarinet licks though when he was first starting out

Seems to be a special providence! Maybe you were just waiting for that vid to pick it up again ;-)

She deserves it!

When you go see them on the street in NOLA, as I have twice, Doreen will sell you their CDs.

she brings me to tears....every time, what a GIFT to all!!! Thank God for you Doreen.

+Oprahs FatAss Oh I agree

Well, here in Vienna we have also street music. Wouldn't say it's boring here... just different style. 😉

+bucaneromax1 yeah just different styles 👍🏻👍🏼👍🏽👍🏾👍🏿

we do

They find them Interesting and then they want to go back home now...lol

I'd buy it! That sent cold chills all over my body

...i see and hear her everyday...she's is definitely a jewel...

Actually, she has quite a few CDs, but she sells them there on the street out of her case. Her fanny pack is full of cash used to make change.

"Her fanny pack is full of cash used to make change" LOL

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon Bonaparte.

If you were rich, I'm sure you never would have seen this video.

They aren't doing that bad . Probably killing it , rightfully so. You don't suck and play in the French Quarter. To much competition.

They'd never play for you again.

You should have gone before Katrina, (before 2005). Most of the black people have been forced out. They even bulldozed the projects with people's clothes still in the house!

GooglFascists have you ever been there? T hasn’t changed at all. And no, the flooded houses were not bulldozed. They are all still standing

Stevie1derr totally worth it if you ever get the chance dont think twice just go

Stevie1derr, save your money and pack your bags!! There is a spirit in this city that no other city has that I have ever been too. You will have fun, eat good food, meet great people and cry when you leave because you know you've never experienced anything like Nawlins!!

It's worth it. I live 30 mins fomrom the city and still love going whenever I can

You are so right! The main problem with Clarinets though is all the white girls who play them. LOL

Never me. I worship the late, great Benny Goodman!

Hue hue xD so truue

We have clarinets in my school's jazz band. They outplay the saxes! I'm just the bassist, lol

Not so...my very black daughter played the clarinet in elementary school. And what's wrong with "white girls who play jazz?" Love me some Candy Dulfer!

so glad I wasn't the only one crying.

hearing that stirred my soul

Me too i swear I feel like I lived here in a past life or something this hits my heart right to the core

She is GOD MOTHER of Humanity African women we are GOD***

What a joy Doreen gave to us Europeans - this music is not heard a lot at least in the area where I live. We have to come to the USA to enjoy it...

Hopefully you still find Doreen every time you pass French quarter, but yes, you are right, she has performed in other places, as well.

What about the tuba

Don Richards I gave her 5$ she's great

Daniel Peterson It´s a sousaphone, Daniel ;-)

i know

haha Thanks Mr.Martin

Imagine actually saying this, downplaying all the hard work she's done to god giving her a gift without doing anything. You're a piece of shit.

The Black women is GOD*** NO MEN GAVE HER THIS TALENT!!! Mother of Humanity is African Women*** she is GOD we Black women are the Beginning and the End.

God is a myth, but whatever works for you

INdeed, she is!

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Cameron Whitten

I have. It's crazy, but her albums are so expensive XD

I used to live in NOLA, I would stand there in the French Quarter for hours listening to her. Always made my day. I miss it so much

Jonathan Bergeron I went to see Tool in late Jan of 16, weekend before Mardi Gras, beautiful weather, not too busy. I bet I watched her for three hours Saturday, and would have more Sunday but friends from the coast showed up. I lived in Biloxi for 27 years and did the things 18-25 year old guys do. I spent two nights there that weekend and had a blast, prolly moreso during the day. I want to go back and be a tourist now.

dude i did in new orleans and i got a video... it was lit

St. Bernard Acres this 🖕🖒🖒🖒🖒

St. Bernard Acres p

Yeah, she said: the more you pay, the better I play, hahahaha! ;-)

I can't imagine a better way to spend your money

That Blessed Me, I would be happy to Return the Blessing🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

Absolutely! Thank you.

me too!

ONe of my favourites as well! Want it for my funeral!

IUSECAMERAS 😀😀😁

Thank you for your comment! :-)

She puts the clarinet to a new level!

Christine Martin, what's this lady's name? I looked for her name in the thread but wasn't able to find it. Her playing is phenomenal.

Doreen Ketchens

Absolutely!

When I was filming, I also had tears in my eyes!

Yep, I´d like that for my funeral as well...there is no song matching better for your last travel!

bucaneromax1 Thanks for the post. The first time i heard this song was at Preservation Hall, january 1974, Sweet Emma Barrett singing and playing piano with all those great old cats. Great times, man, great times ! Nice to meet you. Bucaneromax1. Fabio from Brazil!

***** Hi Fabio, sorry for the late answer! Are you kidding me, you heard Sweet Emma Barrett??? I envy you! Just saw an old video of her, thinking wow...I wanted to see her live...and Lizzy Miles, too! Julia from Austria :-D

Yes my friend. It was january 6, 1974 ,when I had the privilege to see and hear Sweet Emma Barrett and her Preservation Hall Jazz Band with all these old cats at Preservation Hall NO. I bought an LP there and a folder named Old Jazz ,with 6 beautiful lithographs, made by an artist named McBride, of Sweet Emma, Blanche Thomas, George Lewis , Albert "Papa"French, Wildren "Frog"Joseph an a New Orleans Function of a NO Parade Band. 40 ys. later I remember this night, as today. After the show ,my pregnant wife and me returned to the Holliday Inn Hotel walking by the streets feeling and flavoring the rich sounds and people of French Quartier. We are still happy remembering this. That's Life. " Memories are made of This " !

Wow! These are memories for life!!! I know what you mean, just strolling down the streets of NO...I want to return asap! I´ve been there only once, but had a deep impact on me! Well, thanks for sharing your memories with us...I´ll check the artists you mentioned. At least here in Austria hardly anybody knows them...:-( Have a nice day!

Doreen is timeless...;-) I revisited her in 2015 to hear her again and made the same song request... I really do hope, she and her band are in good health today, without her, NOLA wouldn´t be the same...

It´s the envy...

Thanks for that interesting detail. Doreen´s talent would be a welcome addition to any orchestra!

You can look for they vídeo in YT...

I agree with you a 100% in all what you said!!!

That's probably a Selmer clarinet.

You are absolutely right. I have already added her full name.

Jonathan Corral 2020

That´s true.

Indeed, she is !