Somebody below says the timing is wrong. The guy does not understand the music at all. Anybody can go out of time and come back in to make the whole number more interesting. It happens all the time. All the musicians understand this. There is a fundamental beat that everyone comes back to. That's why they call it jazz, folks. These musicians are the BEST.
From the comments, the musicians are Percy Humphrey (tp), Willie Humphrey (cl), Frank Demond (tb), Marwin KImball (bj), Alan Jaffe (Tuba), Anybody knows who are the drummer and the pianist ?
0:07 Clarinet Marmarlade 5:31 His Eye Is On The Sparrow 10:52 Joe Avery's Piece (Victory Walk) 18:30 Basin Street Blues 24:05 Lil' Liza Jane Personnel Trumpet:Percy Humphrey Clarinet:Willie Humphrey Trombone:Frank Demond Piano:James "Sing" Miller Banjo:Narvin Kimball Hericon:Allan Jaffe Drums:Frank Parker Sing Miller's singing on "His Eye's on the Sparrow" makes me cry. Narvin's harmonies are great. And I'm sure the timing is definitely on the spot overall.
I saw them in New Orleans and have been hooked ever since. Even sat on stage next to Frank in Tarrytown NY. Have t-shirt and "I danced with Percy Humphrey" pin. The band has really gone downhill lately - 2019.
i've been watching this for years.cant stop.i'm 93 now and played in a combo with my two older brothers now gone .Willy and Percy were an inspiration to us.Brother AL played sax brotherr ,RAY played piano, I played trumpet.wonderful memories.
I love the Pres Hall 1980s lineup, with Jaffe on the helicon and so many elder statesmen down front. 'His Eye Is On The Sparrow' is my favorite song by them.
I met all the men here Preservation Hall in Feb of 1985 in New Orleans Dad took me and Mom had so much fun I was the goofy one dancing by Sing Miller in When The Saints Come Marching In song the one video where coments were disabled but that was me alright dancing and giving Sing Miller kiss on cheek !!
Correct, and Allan Jaffe on TUba. These guys go back to the Origianl N.O.Preservation Hall 731 St Peter's st, N.O where this music was conceived born and bred/ I find it odd, strange even that there appear to be NO Afro Americans in NO these days,however, there's a lot of young Whitey's who flying the flag of the Best Music ever. N/O/ Jazz. I dare say the White supremacists in the US Govt.had something to do with the shifting of some 300,000 Blacks after Hurricane Katrina, Wonder where they were all shipped out to?
I saw them play at Presavation All In New Orleans when Dad took me and Mom there in Feb of 1985 I was 29 I met them all there got theier autograph they are were aewsome band !! Im 62 but loved Dad Music he died Dad on Jan 14th 1988 he was only 71
I've attended The Preservation Jazz Concerts twice: New Orleans - summer 1975 or 76, and my graduation week from Iowa State University - February 1978. My parents from Massachusetts loved it, especially my father who played his Martin steel guitar in bands when he was in his early 20s.
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Willie, one of my favouriter clarinet players. How the hell does he get that sound with such a soft read. Must have a mouth piece with one hell of an open lay.
These guys also visiting Norway for 5 concerts. I think it was the same year. They only played in churches exept in Ski, Norway where they played in the Town Hall Theatre. The concert in Ski was a great experience, but also interesting to watch. I think it was the guy on tuba that owned the Preservation Hall. He had renovated it and restarted the band. The trompet player was the boss, 80 years old. He always gave the black guys a finger hook in honour for solo performances, but looked very hostail to the white guys. When the man on trombone moved over central on a solo perfomance he pushed him back to his chair. Very peculiar.
Those two programmes were possibly the best things I ever saw on TV. So pleased you have preserved this for us, adelaide102. Tunes: Clarinet Marmalade; His Eye is on the Sparrow; Joe Avery's Piece; Basin Street Blues; Li'l Liza Jane.
I saw the same band members when Dad took MOm and I to see them in Feb of 1985 and im almost 64 years old and it was from my Dads era as he was in his 60s near 70 when he took us so hed be over 100 which I know they are all gone now and are about Dads age or older .MOm would be going on 91 and Dad would be going on 105 or 106 .My sister will be71 in August.AlwayslovedDads era typeof musicbut love a variety of music too and have alot on Pandora Radio !
Willie and Percy Humphrey can't get any better brothers playing together. Now playing for St Peter at the pearly gates of heaven. My all time favorite is hold that tiger
I saw the same people herein March of 1985 in NewOrleans at Presrvation Hall ! Its my Dad era and music but I love it too grewup on it as Dad loved dixieland and Prservation hall music ! Dad would be 104 . Im 64 !
I probly heard some of these same cats once when my father took me to Belmont Park racetrack- not to bet on the ponies, but to hear the Preservation Hall Jazz Band! Fast forward to 50 years later, I now play- or represent- this music, with my voice and my slide trombone. Dag.
I saw the same band at the Royal Festival Hall in September of 1979 . The band ain't all about the musicianship it was more about the preservation of the music and a hall in New Orleans. It was a great concert . 😢
Saw these guys live in the Great Hall of the Union at University of Wisconsin in the early 60s!! Great hot jass!! Marvin Kimball here on banjo was the last man standing!! Fled Hurricane Katrina and died with family in New Jersey well into his 90s!! Desmond on trombone might still be alive!!
Thank you very much .Back at 1985 I had the great chance to be right inside the Preservation Hall for one concert and there were exactly the same excellent artists. One of my best music memories !
+JandritoBlues It always makes me sad when folks like you can't count to ONE. They WEREN'T clapping on 1 and 3, they were only clapping on the downbeat of ONE, clapping off the bars. Perfectly acceptable. And no less than Percy Humphrey, himself, started them off on ONE at exactly 16:34, and they followed him ! At 16:48, you can even SEE them clapping on ONE only !
Frank Desmond?? Because of his youth in the1960s he if alive is one of the last men standing of that era of New Orleans Jass!! Have to be careful. Billie Pierce and Sweet Emma were women of this music in that era. They own a share of that eras best jass. Long gone!! Desmond always wore loud socks usually fire engine red!! With the white shirt and tie!! Of the olde timers, Kimball was last man out!! Fled Katrina and his breathing stopped somewhere in New Jersey well into his 90s!! Great banjo silenced!! Jaffe here onTuba: heard his son on bass playing in Boulder Colorado in the 90s at a PHJB concert. Great Tradition here!!
Tommy Schibli The outstanding trombone player is Frank Demond, born in 1933. He was 51 years old in this video and very experienced, having played with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band since 1976 and banjo with them before that. It was Big Jim Robinson who encouraged him in his college years to switch from banjo to trombone. Robinson later invited him to sit in with the Preservation Hall Band in 1965, but he played mainly banjo until Jim Robinson died and Demond took over the trombone chair in 1976. But it was ten years before he could play the trombone that Jim Robinson had bequeathed to him.
accordio13 Frank Demond ( correct spelling), is still living and was born in 1933. . Narvin Kimball was helped to evacuate New Orleans to Baton Rouge by Ben Jaffe, Allan's son. He died in South Carolina in 2006 at the age of 97. "Great banjo silenced " is right, although he had retired from the Preservation Hall Jazz band in 1999.
I first heard the band in NO in 1974. I know they are getting old but can't believe they couldn't find brother's good enough to replace the old guys when they passed away.
I was in NOLA almost a year ago. I was so happy to see that people love this music played in the original, the old and the modern push the envelope styles. I enjoyed them all. If you ever get a chance to go to the Spotted Cat Club on Frenchman Street or to all the stages of the French Quarter Festival I say go for it. I also recommend making sure you see and hear Meschiya Lake, a local fave and I hope soon a bigger star.
