MORE TUBA SKINNY VIDEO at: / digitalalexa Tuba Skinny - "Blue and Lonesome" - Spotted Cat 4/10/12 Erika Lewis - vocals Todd Burdick- Tuba Shaye Cohn - Piano Barnabus Jones - Trombone Robin Rapuzzi - Washboard John Doyle - Sax
Thanks for your kind words. I am glad other people enjoy Tuba Skinny as much as my wife and I do. I have stopped listing individual credits in my video and instead give the band's url so people can info on the band and to buy their music.
Just a wonderful performance! I am absolutely fascinated by Shane’s performance on the piano. It’s got a indescribable “crispness” to it . What a talent that lady is.
This band is so talented. Did you notice how few snarky comments their videos have? I think that they project some kind of humanity that entrances the listener.
I love absolutely everything that the great Tuba Skinny do, but this ranks amongst the very best. Shaye is fabulous on piano and if I could give two thumbs up I would!
Shaye is a wonderful musician! Pretty also! I listen to Tuba Skinny on u tube almost every day! Shaye plays almost every instrument! What an incredible talent! Music must be HER LIFE! May her fingers NEVER give out!
Ian and fellow Brits: Londoner Ewan Bleach is playing beautiful clarinet in this video. He was in NOLA for about three months last year and is currently back in the Crescent City playing with various bands while TS are touring. Ewan is a fantastic reed player and we should all contact him when he gets back to London to see if he can help us bring Tuba Skinny over here for a tour.
Shaye Cohn, in addition to a great piano, usually plays cornet with Tuba Skinny, but she also plays accordion, fiddle and I've even seen her play the spoons with Stale Bread Scottie in a jam session with the Drunken Catfish Ramblers, members of Yes Ma'am and Tuba Skinny and she does all the arranging for Tuba Skinny. Classically trained and coming from the famous jazz family of father Joe Cohn,guitar and grandfather Al Cohn,sax we're lucky she loves trad. New Orleans Jazz. She's a treasure.
Shaye has me spellbound by her piano especially in this number. The tempo is just perfect, the attack with which her graceful fingers drop onto those notes and the spell not only grips me, it does the fellow performers too. After Shaye finishes her solo section with all swaying to the beat, its almost as if they are reluctant to cut in above the sublime pianist.. Except for the washboard player and he manages to quietly carry on washing away.
There a a number of videos out there featuring this amazing young lady on the piano. This is one of the best but my all time favourite is Shaye on the piano guesting with a band in Tokyo . This is the link. Do yourself a favour and check it out . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v9l6n1B8ISc.html
Every one of these musicians is superb. Shaye is so versatile! She can play cornet and piano and several other instruments like a genius! Erika Lewis is certainly the best jazz and blues vocalist today! Where is the national publicity for these musicians?
This reminds me of the family gathering around the piano around 1942 or so, with Aunt Louise playing just this kind of barrel-house piano, while everybody sang. Good times, great songs. What's not to like?
I'm an old guy who has loved this kind of music all my life!... This 'Tuba Skinny' band is so enormously talented... Outstanding music!... Thanks for sharing.
Feet,you're but a kid yet, I'm 80 and have listened and collected this amazing N.O music for years, also played it (drums) and I do agree with the crank bv1 comment. Much of today's stufff,(outside of N.O. particularly bares little resemblance to jazz, usually played too fast, lacks feelings and emotion, and merely shows and tells the listeners that 'Here's a band that can play everything faster than any other band' Especially many so called 'Trad Bands'. In Britain Ken Colyer was a leader in bringing the New Orleans feel to jazz in the early fifties bless him.The bands shown here are simply amazing,especially given the young ages too.
Thanks a lot Tuba Skinny for maintaining the music we all love !!! Its not just about N Orleans,but even here in Belgrade the candle is burning for the glory of N Orl music. Love to Shaye, Barbabas, Ewan, and others ... . Lose Marbles for ever.
This style of music sounds like the Portuguese Fado, the Tango or "Chorinho" Brazilian , of course with different cultural and rhythmic particularities. I just love it, and Tuba Skinny really is fantastic.
I remember many years ago I visited New Orleans and saw the Preservation Hall Jazz group. They were absolutely fantastic, but sorry boys, you have just lost the top spot to Tuba Skinny. This music is unbelievable.
Derek Voller All you mention AND she scrapes a decent fiddle , seems to write and distribute the charts , directs proceedings in the most delicate manner. And Damm me. Designs a fantastic twelve inch sleeve. I bet she cooks as well . Marry me shaye
@@mikeos1, they say she is a female reincarnation of the famous Bix Beiderbecke of the early 20th century. I have done some research, and they both could play every kind of instrument invented, probably even Wagner's contrabass tuba ! The erie comparison between Shaye and Bix is, they both concentrated on the cornet and piano.
I agree with you Peter, too many bands play the fast and furious yet soulless 'TRAD', Yuk, When Colyer left this earth, sincerity vanished, although there are/were still a few great bands in UK. Ken Pye's for one, the Late Danny Pawsons band too was superb and in true NO Style, there are a few others too but too much of the fast paced, unimaginative garbage is played and presented to the ignorant.who wouldn't know Bunk Johnson from Billy Cotton.
@@jimmymcc1941 yes, Jimmy and John. They are now making an annual tour of Europe, but I'm not for certain they have gotten to the UK. I think someone said they knew of a concert in France and possibly Germany, and somewhere else on the continent, but I still don't know about the UK. Wish you guys luck in bringing them in to the old mother country.
Been following TS for six months now and every number deepens my appreciation - love - for their music. Every damn one of them is a terrific player and together they weave such sweet - hot - sensuous music as an ensemble ! Been listening to some Louis Armstrong early Hot Five / Hot Sevens remastered CD's this week, and TS is playing the "real thing" as well as it has ever been played. (Well, no one matches Louis when he plays those high notes like ice cream .. but apart from that, Shaye is exquisite.) And Erica sings that era wonderfully. Pops Coffee's blog and comments are icing on the cake. I've purchased four CD's so far - each terrific. Shaye Cohn is a musical genius; on all the instrument except reeds ... and as arranger / composer ! They all seem to be terrific people .. it takes real listening, commitment, discipline and good humor to play and travel like this .. headed into their 10th year ! Will do my best to see them on an East Coast swing this Summer. THANK YOU for these videos .. you and the other's making them bring much joy .. around the world, it seems.
Even to the untrained ear,most traditional jazz renditions,good though they often are,fail to conceal their modernity...perhaps it's the arrangement or a subtle change in the instrumentation nowadays..I don't know. But this is different. Take away the visuals and you would swear you are listening to an old Okeh record straight from a smoky 1920s speakeasy. Tuba Skinny have managed to capture this sound as close to the era as we will probably ever hear. Near perfection!
Tuba Skinny are very close to the Lewis,Bunk Johnson,Jim Robinson, Kid Thomas Valentine era but it should be born in ind that recording facilities in the pre 'HI FI' era left a lot to be desired, I think Tuba Skinny are pretty smart and Maria Dixon, makes my hair stand on end, that girl can sing with her heart and soul AND blow a hot trumpet too,what more could you ask for, the rest of the band too are simply wonderful. Many thanks to Tuba Skinny.
I first heard this early jazz on 78's on a big ole console wind-up Victrola .. in my Grandma's attic - this was the late 40's, no more than 20 years after they were recorded. This captures that age of creative genius, it plays through the background noise like it was the buzz and scratch of the old shellac ...
But, but, but... She is really amazing ! Cornet, drum, piano !.. She plays really everything 8) Other folks are also obviously great ! This music is an endless pleasure to discover (and re-discover) !
What a band!This is the real thing,no doubt about it!I have been collecting and lsitening to JAZZ for over sixty years and this group hits my button every time they play.What a boon is YT
We Brits should also bombard the Tuba Skinny website urging them to come over to the UK. I sent an email to them last year and had a lovely reply from Erika who said they would come to the UK if gigs could be arranged for them. Sadly, I am not a promoter and know nothing about arranging gigs, tours and costings. Any volunteers out there?
