Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band perform "I'll Fly Away" on Letterman. From their album American Legacies: Preservation Hall Jazz Band & The Del McCoury Band" Available now at: mccourymusic.com/AmericanLegac...
Listened to this in memory of my Dad, who made a beeline for Preservation Hall every time he visited New Orleans. A stroke of brilliance to collaborate with Del McCoury & band. Joyful noise!
@@MH-il1lk In fact both genres have one thing in common, that is the Banjo which you can hear over those horns because back in the good old fashioned Days of Dixieland Jazz, the Guitar wasn't loud enough. So Guitarists got to play 6 string Guitar-Banjos (aka Banjitars).
If i ever feel down or wondering where this country is going, I put this video on and it's better than any drug or speech, especially when i sing along with Del McCory band or dig the back and forth between the clarinet and the violin who obviously are digging each other. Just wonderful!
I was turned on to the Del McCoury band when they did an album with Steve Earle some years back. Growing up in N.O., I've followed PHJB since the Sweet Emma days. To hear them together is priceless. I personally love Clint Maedgen's voice. Check out some of the stuff he does with his other project, the New Orleans Bingo Show. He does some stuff that is pure old school swamp pop , which he has the perfect voice for.
I love big band jazz music because everyone seems to be playing their own song yet somehow they all amount to one consistent song. It’s not so much like classical where the orchestra all follow the same/similar notes. I love and appreciate both
That is *bleepin* awesome. Two of my favorite genres thrown in to a big bubblin stew pot, and cooked to melodic perfection, and served up with cornbread. That was amazin. :)
First saw The Preservation Hall Jazz Band on Saturday Night Live in 1976 and they were fantastic then and are still fantastic! :) Keep on making great music!
mikosoft You mean the dude with the epic fro? Yeah, that's Ben Jaffe, the Creative Director of Preservation Hall. He's also a living legacy and quite a visionary (and one of the nicest guys ever). Google a history of Preservation Hall, it's really interesting. :-)
+mikosoft Ben Jaffe is the son of Allan and Barbara Jaffe who bought Preservation Hall and turned it from an art gallery with some jazz nights into a legendary music hall in 1961 to preserve the legacy of traditional New Orleans music and give the original creators jobs and a permanent place to play. Allan also created the first of many Preservation Hall Jazz Bands and played tuba with them, leading them in tours all over the world. Luckily , Ben has carried on the tradition for the family. There are videos showing the original Preservation Hall Jazz Bands with Allan playing an awesome tuba and dancing with that sousaphone even more than Ben does.
mikosoft That’s Ben Jaffe. His father founded Preservation Hall in 1961 to preserve the traditional New Orleans Jazz. Ben is the creative director and he’s the brains behind these collaborations they’ve been doing with other artists in recent years.
I saw these guys live in New Orleans at Preservation Hall on July 13 and then, just a week later once I had travelled on to Nashville towards the end of my trip, I caught them on Letterman - it was awesome, and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing them both live and then on TV later. :)
Del McCoury & his band have great voices which blend together beautifully. It is just a different style. Not my taste, but definitely fabulous talent. Personally I love the singing styles of Clint Maedgen from PHJB. Del McCoury must like him too cause from what I've learned he has worked with PHJB (including Clint Maedgen) many times. I think it's pretty cool. I never heard of him til I saw the Preservation Hall Jazz Band live several wks ago. Fantastic. One of the best shows I have ever seen.
Agree! Apart of from that, however, the combination of the two bands is amazing! I saw The Preservation Hall Jazz Band at the Jazz Standard a few years ago and they had the house rockin'. Not sure that that small venue could have contained both bands - - but what a treat to hear them perform together.
meichards19... i was in the front row at that show, 3-19-11. insane! ronnie mccoury and charlie gabriel are pretty much the best mandolin and clarinet players on the planet. and maedgen absolutely brought down the house with this tune - which had twice as much soloing and a much longer, more energetic ending from maedgen than the clip shown above. that was truly one of the best shows in the history of music. BTW, is it just me or does letterman look like carol o'connorr but with a redder face?
I have been to New Orleans a hundred times and never heard a band this good.. All I have experienced is really smelly streets, witnessed street fights, and been offered drugs at random.. But then again it's a party city.
+Paul Andrews It all depends on the time of year you go....Pres Hall Band is there just need to check their schedule and then there is the Jazz Festival.
+Paul Andrews 100's of times and those are your only experiences?!...LOL My advice....get off of Bourbon, away from your convention center and hotel....and see some shows on Frenchman Street....take a trolley to City Park and take pictures at the sculpture garden.....see the amazing old homes and cool vintage clothing stores in the Garden District....or visit the Maple Leaf Bar in Uptown to see a band of this claliber almost any night of the week. Talk to the locals and see where they like to go.....none of them will say Bourbon Street. Get out of the cesspool that is the French Quarter and actually see the city before you leave stupid comments.
Preservation Hall has three shows a night, Frtizel's just down the street has killer music all day/night, and a short walk off Bourbon to Frenchmaen St you'll find DBA, Spotted Cat, etc. We found all that our first day. Hope you get to see more next trip!
I can hear the Banjo over those Brass Horns cause the Plastic Drum head is acting like a Loud Amplifier. In the Big Band era Guitarists used 6 String Guitar Banjos to compete with the Brass Horns.
definitely has that bluesy jazzy groove to his voice tough to pick apart haha. If you listen to this kind of thing a lot it gets easier.... Dr. John, never could understand him lol, now it's easy. IDK it grows on you haha
+Kyle Pett Clint Maedgen is not singing out of his range at all. You don't understand jazz singing, which intentionally tries to imitate the whole range of sounds of the instruments and that's also Clint's natural singing voice. He's also singing with great "SOUL", which is the heart of New Orleans traditional jazz. And yes, it certainly IS sustainable for a lifetime. My parents ( both classical musicians) said something similarly ridiculous about Brenda Lee , "Little Miss Dynamite" , early in her career, because of something very creative but difficult she did with her throat, even though they liked her singing. They didn't recognize that it was natural for her and wasn't the strain they thought it was. I told them to watch her career and see how long her voice lasts and Brenda NEVER lost her voice and got nothing but raves for her unique singing.
+rugshort And I am sure your singing voice would make angels cry. Troll Nevermind that...between the two of you.....who is a touring musician..and who is a youtube commenter? Now with that in mind....why should anyone give a shit what you think?
