The Preservation Hall Jazz Band is a New Orleans jazz band founded in New Orleans by tuba player
Allan Jaffe
Allan Phillip Jaffe (April 24, 1935, Pottsville, Pennsylvania - March 9, 1987, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist and the entrepreneur who, along with his wife Sandra, developed Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz tradition.
Jaffe' ...
in the early 1960s. The band derives its name from
Preservation Hall
Preservation Hall is a jazz venue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building is associated with a house band, a record label, and a non-profit foundation.
History of the jazz hall
In the 1950s, art dealer Larry Borenstein ...
in the French Quarter. In 2005, the Hall's doors were closed for a period of time due to Hurricane Katrina, but the band continued to tour.
Early years
In the 1950s, Larry Borenstein, an art dealer from Milwaukee, managed
Preservation Hall
Preservation Hall is a jazz venue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. The building is associated with a house band, a record label, and a non-profit foundation.
History of the jazz hall
In the 1950s, art dealer Larry Borenstein ...
in the French Quarter as an art gallery. To attract customers, he invited local New Orleans jazz musicians to play. After their honeymoon in 1961, Allan Jaffe and his wife Sandra visited to hear some traditional New Orleans jazz. The Jaffes were from Pennsylvania. Allan Jaffe was a tuba player who had graduated from the
Wharton School of Business
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in Philadelphia, while his wife had been employed at an advertising agency. They attended concerts, grew to love the
French Quarter
The French Quarter, also known as the , is the oldest neighborhood in the city of New Orleans. After New Orleans (french: La Nouvelle-Orléans) was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, the city developed around the ("Old Sq ...
, and stayed longer than they had intended. Borenstein asked if they wanted to manage Preservation Hall, and they agreed.
Allan Jaffe hired local musicians whose ages ranged from the 60s to the 90s. Many were struggling with poverty, racism, and illness. At first the Jaffes served no alcohol, used no amplification, and didn't advertise. In 1963, Allan Jaffe began to tour with bands in the U.S. and in other countries. These tours included such popular figures as pianist
Sweet Emma Barrett, trumpeter
Kid Thomas Valentine
Kid Thomas (1896–1987), born Thomas Valentine, was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. In the early 1920s, he gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man. Sta ...
, brothers
Percy Humphrey
Percy Gaston Humphrey (January 13, 1905 – July 22, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In addition to his band, Percy Humphrey and His Crescent City Joymakers, for more than thirty years he was leader ...
and
Willie Humphrey
Willie James Humphrey (December 29, 1900 – June 7, 1994) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Willie Humphrey was born in a musical family, the son of prominent local clarinetist and music teacher Willie Eli Humphrey; his brothers Earl Humphrey ...
, trumpeter
De De Pierce
Joseph De Lacroix "De De" Pierce (February 18, 1904 – November 23, 1973) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. He is best remembered for the songs "Peanut Vendor" and "Dippermouth Blues", both with Billie Pierce.
Biography
Pierce was ...
and his wife, pianist
Billie Pierce
Wilhelmina Madison Goodson, known professionally as Billie Pierce (June 8, 1907 – September 29, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce. Her style has been described as a "pote ...
. The most popular was clarinetist
George Lewis George Lewis may refer to:
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* George B. W. Lewis (1818–1906), circus rider and theatre manager in Australia
* George E. Lewis (born 1952), American composer and free jazz trombonist
* George J. Lewis (1903–1995), Mexica ...
, whose reputation preceded the Hall. Fans from all over the world came to New Orleans to hear traditional jazz.
Olympia Brass Band
Barrett's health began to decline in the 1970s, which forced her to stop touring. She was replaced as leader by brothers
Percy Humphrey
Percy Gaston Humphrey (January 13, 1905 – July 22, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In addition to his band, Percy Humphrey and His Crescent City Joymakers, for more than thirty years he was leader ...
(trumpet) and
Willie Humphrey
Willie James Humphrey (December 29, 1900 – June 7, 1994) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Willie Humphrey was born in a musical family, the son of prominent local clarinetist and music teacher Willie Eli Humphrey; his brothers Earl Humphrey ...
(clarinet). The lineup included Frank Demond (trombone), James Prevost (bass), James "Sing" Miller (piano),
Cie Frazier (drums),
Jim Robinson (trombone),
Narvin Kimball
Narvin Kimball (March 2, 1909 - March 17, 2006) was a jazz musician who played banjo and string bass and was also known for his fine singing voice.
The left-handed virtuoso banjo player was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well-regarde ...
(banjo), and
Allan Jaffe
Allan Phillip Jaffe (April 24, 1935, Pottsville, Pennsylvania - March 9, 1987, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist and the entrepreneur who, along with his wife Sandra, developed Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz tradition.
Jaffe' ...
(tuba).
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many of the touring members were hired by
Harold Dejan for his Olympia Brass Band. This band became not only a staple at Preservation Hall, but also influenced the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and future Preservation Hall musicians.
Dejan's regular sidemen included Andy Anderson (trumpet), Milton Batiste (trumpet), Kid Sheik Cola (trumpet), Paul Crawford (trombone) Gerald Joseph (trombone), Emanuel Paul (tenor saxophone), Andrew Jefferson (snare), John Smith, Henry "Booker T" Glass, Nowell "Papa" Glass. Cag Cagnolatti, Kid Thomas Valentine, Louis Nelson, Louis Cottrell, Jr., Cié Frazier, Emanuel Sayles, and Allan Jaffe on tuba were among those who played with the group. During the Olympia years, a young
Harry Connick Jr. performed with Barrett and the band at Preservation Hall.
In 1977, Jaffe and Arthur Hall and his Afro-American Dance Ensemble released ''Fat Tuesday and All That Jazz! A Mardi Gras Dance Musical''. The world premiere of the dance musical was on February 19, 1977, and was followed by a tour in the United States. Dejan's Olympia Brass Band was featured in ''Fat Tuesday and All That Jazz'', in addition to the Arthur Hall Afro-American Dance Ensemble of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Later years
In 1987, Allan Jaffe died of cancer at the age of fifty-one. After his son Ben graduated from
Oberlin College
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, he became artistic director in 1993.
Ben Jaffe toured with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing double bass and tuba. He began the educational initiatives that his father developed.
"As many as 20 different bands, drawn from a pool of about 150 local musicians, had played at Preservation Hall in the 1960s, but by 1999 virtually all of the older generation of musicians had died and the band members were a mixture of younger African-American players and white musicians from overseas. Most notable among the former were Michael White (ii), Wendell Brunious (who gradually took over the leadership of Valentine's band in the elder trumpeter's final years, as well as the touring band), Freddie Lonzo, and the tuba player Walter Payton; Europeans included the Swedish pianist Lars Edegran, the English trumpeter Clive Wilson, Orange Kellin, and Jacques Gauthé" (Hazeldine, Kernfeld).
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band continued to tour nationally and internationally. The band was led by trumpeter
Wendell Brunious
Wendell Brunious (born October 27, 1954, New Orleans) is an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Born on October 27, 1954, Brunious was born into a Louisiana Creole people, Louisiana Creole family, the son of Nazimova "Chinee" Santiago and Joh ...
, later replaced by his older brother,
John Brunious
John Brunious Jr. (October 12, 1940 – February 12, 2008) was a jazz trumpeter and a bandleader for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans.
Biography
The family lived in the Seventh Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. His father, John Br ...
.
In 2006, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was awarded the
National Medal of Arts
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, the nation's highest honor for artistic excellence. The award was presented Benjamin Jaffe and co-founder of Preservation Hall, Sandra Jaffe, who accepted the award from President and Mrs.
Laura Bush in an Oval Office ceremony on November 9, 2006. The citations read: "With enormous talent and pride, this ageless ensemble has toured the world displaying the unbreakable spirit of New Orleans and sharing the joy of New Orleans jazz with us all."
Nearing Preservation Hall's 45th anniversary, the band collaborated with musicians from other genres, such as
Blind Boys of Alabama
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* The state of blindness, being unable to see
* A window blind, a covering for a window
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* ''Blind'' (2007 film), a Dutch drama by Tamar van den Dop
* ''Blind ...
on their Grammy Award winning album ''Down in New Orleans''. The band's benefit album in 2010 contained contributions from
Andrew Bird
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,
Del McCoury Band
The Del McCoury Band is a Grammy award-winning American bluegrass band.
History
Originally the band was called Del McCoury and the Dixie Pals with Del on guitar and his brother Jerry on bass. The band went through a number of changes in personn ...
,
Jim James
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...
,
Dr. John
Malcolm John Rebennack Jr. (November 20, 1941 – June 6, 2019), better known by his stage name Dr. John, was an American singer and songwriter. His music encompassed New Orleans blues, jazz, funk, and R&B.
Active as a session musician from ...
,
Pete Seeger
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, and
Tom Waits
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. The Hall band supported
My Morning Jacket
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on tour. The album ''American Legacies'' was a collaboration with the Del McCoury band, uniting New Orleans jazz and bluegrass music.
In 2014, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band made a guest appearance on the
Foo Fighters
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' eighth studio album ''
Sonic Highways
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''.
The
Trey McIntyre Project dance ensemble collaborated with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to create ''Ma Maison'' and ''The Sweeter End'', two contemporary dance works set. The two ensembles toured numerous dates nationally, including performances at the
Hollywood Bowl
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The Hollywood Bowl is known for its distin ...
and the
Lincoln Center
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.
In 2018 the documentary ''
A Tuba to Cuba'' was released.
50th anniversary
Preservation Hall celebrated its Golden Anniversary from 2011 to 2012. Projects included:
* 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall with
Allen Toussaint
Allen Richard Toussaint (; January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer. He was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, descri ...
, Frank Demond,
Yasiin Bey
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,
Givers
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,
Steve Earle
* Art and Jazz: Preservation Hall at 50 at the
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is located in the Warehouse Arts District of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
Established in 1999, and in Stephen Goldring Hall at 925 Camp Street since 2003.
The building
The Ogden consists of two main buildin ...
.
* Opened the Preservation Hall at 50 exhibition at the Old US Mint in New Orleans.
* Performed at
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
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, with
Bonnie Raitt
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, Jim James, Allen Toussaint, Steve Earle,
Rebirth Brass Band
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.
* The Hall band became the first to perform at both the
Newport Jazz Festival
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and the
Newport Folk Festival
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in the same year.
* Two albums were released: ''Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50th Anniversary Collection'' (
Sony Legacy
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) and ''St. Peter & 57th St.'' (
Rounder
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* ''The Rounder'' (1930 film), a comedy short
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) a recording of the 50th Anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall entitled
Awards
* 2006
National Medal of Arts
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* 2013
NAACP Image Award for ''Preservation Hall Jazz Band 50th Anniversary Collection''
Members
*
Ben Jaffe
Benjamin Jaffe (born January 26, 1971) is the creative director of Preservation Hall and plays tuba and double bass with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Early life and education
He is the son of Preservation Hall's former managers, Allan Jaff ...
– double bass, tuba
*
Charlie Gabriel – saxophone, clarinet
* Walter Harris – drums
* Ronell Johnson – trombone
* Branden Lewis – trumpet
* Clint Maedgen – vocals , saxophone
* Kyle Roussel – piano
Past members
*
Lucien Barbarin
Lucien Barbarin (July 17, 1956 – January 30, 2020) was an American trombone player. Barbarin toured internationally with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and with Harry Connick Jr.
He made his debut at the age of six, playing drums in the On ...
– trombone
*
Paul Barbarin
Adolphe Paul Barbarin (May 5, 1899 – February 17, 1969) was an American jazz drummer from New Orleans.
Career
Barbarin grew up in New Orleans in a family of musicians, including his father, three of his brothers, and his nephew (Danny Barker) ...
– drums
*
Sweet Emma Barrett – piano
*
John Brunious
John Brunious Jr. (October 12, 1940 – February 12, 2008) was a jazz trumpeter and a bandleader for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans.
Biography
The family lived in the Seventh Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. His father, John Br ...
– trumpet
*
Wendell Brunious
Wendell Brunious (born October 27, 1954, New Orleans) is an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Born on October 27, 1954, Brunious was born into a Louisiana Creole people, Louisiana Creole family, the son of Nazimova "Chinee" Santiago and Joh ...
– trumpet
*
Albert Burbank
Albert Burbank (March 25, 1902 – August 15, 1976) was an American, New Orleans-based clarinetist.
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Burbank was taught clarinet by Lorenzo Tio, one of that city's most famous clarinet players. H ...
– clarinet
*
Raymond Burke – clarinet
* Maynard Chatters – trombone
*
Paul Crawford - trombone, baritone horn
* Manny Crusto – clarinet
* Frank Demond – trombone
*
Lars Edegran – piano
*
Frank Fields Frank Nomer Fields (May 2, 1914 – September 18, 2005) was an American double bass player who was involved in many R&B, rock and roll and jazz recordings made in New Orleans.
He was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana. In the 1930s, he played wi ...
– bass
*
Cie Frazier – drummer
*
Percy Humphrey
Percy Gaston Humphrey (January 13, 1905 – July 22, 1995) was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In addition to his band, Percy Humphrey and His Crescent City Joymakers, for more than thirty years he was leader ...
– trumpet
*
Willie Humphrey
Willie James Humphrey (December 29, 1900 – June 7, 1994) was a New Orleans jazz clarinetist. Willie Humphrey was born in a musical family, the son of prominent local clarinetist and music teacher Willie Eli Humphrey; his brothers Earl Humphrey ...
– clarinet
*
Allan Jaffe
Allan Phillip Jaffe (April 24, 1935, Pottsville, Pennsylvania - March 9, 1987, New Orleans) was an American jazz tubist and the entrepreneur who, along with his wife Sandra, developed Preservation Hall into a New Orleans jazz tradition.
Jaffe' ...
– tuba
* Ralph H. Johnson – clarinet
*
Leroy Jones – trumpet
*
Jeanette Kimball
Jeanette Kimball (18 December 1906 – 28 March 2001), née Jeanette Salvant, was a classically trained American jazz pianist who played in jazz bands for more than 70 years, mostly in New Orleans. She received the Black Men of Labor Jazz Lega ...
– piano
*
Narvin Kimball
Narvin Kimball (March 2, 1909 - March 17, 2006) was a jazz musician who played banjo and string bass and was also known for his fine singing voice.
The left-handed virtuoso banjo player was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of well-regarde ...
– banjo player
*
Carl LeBlanc
Carl LeBlanc (born May 26, 1955) is an American guitarist and four-string banjo player. LeBlanc is most striking for his work in both avant garde jazz and traditional jazz—being the only musician to work with famed afrofuturist keyboardist/ban ...
– banjo
*
George Lewis George Lewis may refer to:
Entertainment and art
* George B. W. Lewis (1818–1906), circus rider and theatre manager in Australia
* George E. Lewis (born 1952), American composer and free jazz trombonist
* George J. Lewis (1903–1995), Mexica ...
– clarinet
*
Jeffery Miller
Jeffery Oliver Miller is an American trombonist, vocalist, composer, arranger and bandleader primarily known for his work in jazz and pop music. He was worked with Delfeayo Marsalis, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Preservation Hal ...
– trombone
*
Punch Miller – trumpet
*
Sing Miller
James Edward "Sing" Miller (June 17, 1914, New Orleans, Louisiana – May 18, 1990) was an American jazz pianist and a member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Miller started his career as a singer with the Harmonizing Browns Quartet. His main ...
– piano
*
Louis Nelson – trombone
*
Alcide Pavageau
Alcide Louis "Slow Drag" Pavageau (March 7, 1888 – January 19, 1969) was an American jazz guitarist and double-bassist.
Biography
Pavageau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started his career as a dancer, mastering a dance called the ...
– bass
*
Walter Payton
Walter Jerry Payton (July 25, 1953Although most sources at the time of his death gave Payton's birth year as 1954, reliable sources subsequently state he was born in 1953. – November 1, 1999) was an American football running back who played ...
– double bass
*
Billie Pierce
Wilhelmina Madison Goodson, known professionally as Billie Pierce (June 8, 1907 – September 29, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and singer, who performed and recorded with her husband De De Pierce. Her style has been described as a "pote ...
– piano
*
De De Pierce
Joseph De Lacroix "De De" Pierce (February 18, 1904 – November 23, 1973) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. He is best remembered for the songs "Peanut Vendor" and "Dippermouth Blues", both with Billie Pierce.
Biography
Pierce was ...
– trumpet, cornet
*
Shannon Powell
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– drums
* James Prevost – bass
*
Joe Robichaux – piano
*
Jim Robinson – trombone
* Lester Santiago – piano
*
Emanuel Sayles
Emanuel Sayles (January 31, 1907 – October 5, 1986) was an American jazz banjoist chiefly active in the New Orleans jazz scene.
Biography
Sayles was born in Donaldsonville, Louisiana and played violin and viola as a child, then taught himsel ...
– banjoist
*
Kid Sheik – trumpet
*
Gregg Stafford
Gregory Vaughan "Gregg" Stafford (born July 6, 1953, New Orleans) is an American jazz cornetist and trumpeter. He has been a jazz music educator in New Orleans since the 1980s and has led the Young Tuxedo Brass Band for more than thirty years.
...
– trumpet
*
Kid Thomas Valentine
Kid Thomas (1896–1987), born Thomas Valentine, was an American jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
Kid Thomas was born in Reserve, Louisiana and came to New Orleans in his youth. In the early 1920s, he gained a reputation as a hot trumpet man. Sta ...
– trumpet
* Don Vappie – banjo
* Mari Watanabe – piano
*
Michael White – clarinet
* Ricky Monie - Piano
* Joseph Lastie - Drums
Discography
* ''New Orleans' Sweet Emma and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band'' (Preservation Hall, 1964)
* ''New Orleans' Billie & De De and Their Preservation Hall Jazz Band'' (Preservation Hall, 1966)
* ''New Orleans Volume 1'' (Columbia, 1977)
* ''New Orleans Vol. II'' (CBS, 1982)
* ''When the Saints Go Marchin' In'' (CBS, 1983)
* ''New Orleans Vol. IV'' (CBS, 1988)
* ''Preservation Hall Jazz Band Live!'' (Sony, 1992)
* ''In the Sweet Bye & Bye'' (Sony, 1996)
* ''Because of You'' (Sony, 1998)
* ''Songs of New Orleans'' (Preservation Hall, 1999)
* ''Shake That Thing'' (Preservation Hall, 2004)
* ''New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1'' (Preservation Hall, 2009)
* ''An Album to Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program'' (Preservation Hall, 2010)
* ''American Legacies'' (Preservation Hall, 2011)
* ''St. Peter & 57th St.'' (Rounder, 2012)
* ''Jazzfest Live 2012'' (MunckMix, 2012)
* ''That's It!'' (Legacy, 2013)
* ''Run Stop & Drop!!'' (Legacy, 2017)
* ''
So It Is
''So It Is'' is a studio album by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was released on April 21, 2017 on Legacy Recordings, produced by TV On the Radio's Dave Sitek and Ben Jaffe, and recorded at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, ...
'' (Legacy, 2017)
* ''A Tuba to Cuba'' (Sub Pop, 2019)
References
Sources
* William Carter. ''Preservation Hall: Music from the Heart'', 1991.
"Preservation Hall Jazz Band reunites in NYC" MSNBC, September 21, 2005. Retrieved July 24, 2008]
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External links
Official site
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American jazz ensembles from New Orleans
Big bands
Dixieland ensembles
Dixieland revival ensembles
Jazz musicians from New Orleans
Musical groups from New Orleans
United States National Medal of Arts recipients