Watch: K-Doe Live at Jazz Fest, 1980-something (via WWOZ)

K-Doe Live at Jazz Fest, 1980-something

 

This is actually "the Ernie K-Doe Official Louisiana Music Hall Of Fame Induction video", but the bulk of it consists of K-Doe performing a couple of songs (including "Mother-in-Law") at Jazz Fest, sometime during the 1980s. The sign in the background ("Schlitz Welcomes You to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival") may be quaint, but the performance hot.

According to the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, the video was "first presented at his Mother-in-Law Lounge in NOLA. 8-2-2009.... The closing footage is from Ernie and Antoinette's appearance in the movie 'Happy, Now & Then'."

Watch: Funky 2013 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Promo

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In Pictures: Comanche Hunters Mardi Gras Indians @ Jazzfest

c/o Karl

CNN: Jazzfest Wrap Up

In Pictures: Preservation Hall Jazz Band, My Morning Jacket and Terence Blanchard @ Jazzfest Fairgrounds

By Dino Perrucci Photography

Preservation Hall Jazz Band - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/25/10




Preservation Hall Jazz Band - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/25/10


Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/Terence Blanchard - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/25/10


Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/Jim James - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/25/10

NPR: Trombone Shorty - 'Backatown' New Orleans Funk

My Pictures from Jazzfest 2010

Here are a few of my favorites...



First Cochon de Lait Po Boys of the weekend. Purchased right before the rain came down.


Injuns on the Jazz & Heritage Stage.



the funky Meters finishing up their set at the Acura Stage





the Midnite Disturbers - back at the Jazz & Heritage Stage



James Andrews leading a second line in the Blues Tent



Great crowd getting down to the Hot 8 Brass Band to wrap up the weekend.

In Pictures: Second Weekend of Jazzfest 2010 (& Daze Between)

By Dino Perrucci Photography 7th Ward Creole Hunters - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/29/10 North Mississippi Allstars w/Roosevelt Collier & Big Sam Williams - Tipitina's, New Orleans 4/29/10 John Gros - Carrolton Station, New Orleans 4/29/10

Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr. - New Orleans 4/28/10 Railroad Earth - Tipitina's, New Orleans 4/28/10

Johnny Vidacovich - d.b.a. New Orleans 4/27/10 June Yamagishi & George Porter Jr - d.b.a. New Orleans 4/27/10 Livingston Leo - Mimi's in the Marigny, New Orleans 4/27/10 New Orleans Social Club - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/30/10 Jon Batiste - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 4/30/10 Irma Thomas - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 5/1/10 Galactic - New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 5/1/10

The Radiators jam on a set of pre-war blues at Jazz Fest

By Alison Fensterstock

Keith I. Marszalek / NOLA.com

The Rads' Jazz Fest set today, titled "The Radiators Pre-War Blues," was a recreation of a recent Tipitina's blowout called the Radz Bluz Weekend. Drawing on the band's sizable repertoire of classic blues, they played two nights on Napoleon Avenue this past October as a benefit for the Tip's Foundation; one night dedicated to blues songs from before World War II, the other night to those recorded after.

At the Fest today, obviously, they chose to re-enact the pre-war set, but - anachronistic as it may have been - acoustic it was not. It salved the wound of missing Allen Toussaint's guest spot during Levon Helm's set quite a bit to see Ed Volker pound his electric piano during the traditional "Delia's Gone" - with the crowd dancing and spinning in the aisles, the set brought to mind Grateful Dead shows of yore (emphasis on the Dead's "American Beauty" - style blues-rock, not so much the spacey noodling.) Guitarist Camile Baudoin's fingers flew over a wild solo during an electrified, stomping closing cover of Blind Willie Johnson's "Let Your Light Shine On Me."

Ed Volker is a huge collector of vintage blues, and bassist Reggie Scanlan has done his time backing classic blues artists on California's chitlin circuit years ago, but this set was, happily, all the way Rad-icalize

Looking Back at Jazz Fest Weekend One

c/o Hidden Track

By Scott Bernstein on Jazz Fest

The first weekend of Jazz Fest has come and gone down in New Orleans, where the rainy weather put a bit of a damper on the festivities at the Fairgrounds and elsewhere around town. While we wait for our correspondent to return from the Crescent City with a full report, there’s been plenty of fantastic coverage around the ‘nets… Blind Boys of Alabama – Amazing Grace Jambands.com: Lionel Richie, the Black Crowes and Elvin Bishop Perform Despite Rainy Conditions, MMJ at Preservation Hall, Semi-Reunions and Late Night Surprises Glide Magazine: Simon & Garfunkel Review NOLA.com: Mud Fails to Ruin the Fun at Jazz Fest, The Radiators Jam on a Set of Pre-War Blues, Allman Brothers Take It Over The Top, Levon Helm at Jazz Fest, Preservation Hall Gets a Little Help From Friends, My Morning Jacket Earned Its Rep as Great Live Band, The Sun Shined at Jazz Fest Even if Simon & Garfunkel’s Harmonies Didn’t, JamBase: Day 1 – Photo Gallery and Best Of, Day 2 – Photo Gallery and Best Of, Day 3 – Photo Gallery and Best Of USA Today: Jazz Fest Lets The Fun and Sun Shine In After Wet Weekend NewOrleans.com: Weekend 1 – Renewal, Joy and Resurgence Spinner: Simon & Garfunkel Deliver at Jazz Fest, Better Than Ezra Cover Stones and Petty, My Morning Jacket Takes New Orleans Jazz Fest to Streets, Lionel Richie Charms Soaked Jazz Fest Crowd, MMJ – Thank You Too

NPR: Oh, Didn't We Ramble: The Jazz Fest Podcast, Day 1

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

A Comanche Hunter Mardi Gras Indian. (Josh Jackson)

At the end of a long day of music, Josh Jackson and I met up at the hub of Frenchmen Street in New Orleans to talk about what we saw. As you hear from the brass band on the corner, the music continued around the clock: we taped at 2:30 a.m.

Click here to download our recap, or stream it below.

NPR: Dave Bartholomew Steals Bob French's Show (With Permission)

(ed. note: I was in attendance for this set. Perfect end to the first day.)

by Patrick Jarenwattananon

Dave Bartholomew, New Orleans royalty. (Patrick Jarenwattananon/NPR)

An 89-year-old man was the highlight of a 100-year-old band's performance at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Technically, trumpeter Dave Bartholomew isn't part of the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, continuously operating in some fashion since 1910 and currently led by drummer Bob French. But Bartholomew is maternal kin to French -- and he's a living legend.

You know, here's the guy who helped write hits for Fats Domino ("Ain't That A Shame," "Blueberry Hill," etc.). The Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer, the wild card who's done everything in the record business (and is plenty wealthy for it), the man present at the transition of jump blues to R&B. In episode one of Treme, Davis steals a Dave Bartholomew box set -- the point being that this man has been anthologized in a box set. Oh yeah, and he knows his early jazz plenty well too.

French invited Bartholomew along to play on a few tunes. On "Fever," he stepped in for a concise plunger mute solo. On "At Last," he interjected seamless obbligato behind vocalist Yolanda Windsay. And French pointed to him to take the lead on "Tenderly," accompanied only by banjo and piano. His tone is beautifully clear, his phrasing immaculate, his articulation, high notes and effects gutsy. The man sounded great.

Yolanda Windsay sings, Dave Bartholomew plays, Bob French appears to approve. (Patrick Jarenwattananon/NPR)

Bob French is no joke either -- he's certainly nobility in town. He took over the band from his father, played with Fats Domino himself (at Bartholomew's nomination) and hosts shows on WWOZ, New Orleans' celebrated community radio station. He carries his share of the torch proudly. But all the cameras raced to the front when Bartholomew held aloft his horn, and with good reason.

Before the close, French riled up the crowd with a few "Who Dat?" calls. Months after the Super Bowl victory, Saints pride is everywhere, even for a fellow like French who precedes the team's existence by decades. That segued, of course, into "When The Saints Go Marching In" -- and its corollary dancing parade through the aisles, ceremonial umbrellas held aloft. That scene, below:

People who wanted to be in that number.