Dixieland Fake Book - The Firehouse Jazz Band.pdf - Free ebook download as PDF File. Wedding Program Guide. Preparation of the Funeral Mass. The Firehouse Jazz Band - Dixieland Fake Book. Ralph Grugel (1932-2005). It was while working on trains that he got his first taste of Dixieland jazz. In liner notes to 'Riverboat Dixieland,' company producer Mark Schilling describes. Drummer Richard Taylor leads the current Dukes of Dixieland. The CD program features songs that were. He also sang at a recent birthday bash at the National World War II Museum, breaking into . He cracked jokes about his age. And he relished the attention as he was serenaded both times with upbeat renditions of . Yet even he finds the longevity surprising. They had > a lead tpt. Both of these pictures were included in the >>> program. I figured if I could go to about 5. I'd be doing good. Now he's believed to be the oldest actively working musician in New Orleans - - the Mississippi River port city where aging jazz musicians thrive. His body isn't without signs of age. He's been in and out of the hospital in recent years and had a pacemaker implanted last year. He sometimes uses a wheelchair to get around. Despite a century of wear and tear, he's still determined to sing and blow.
His early professional jobs were in the early `3. Starlight Serenaders and the Moonlight Serenaders. He also performed with Captain Handy's Louisiana Shakers. He's still adored by fans for his big band and ragtime jazz style. His band packs the Palm Court Jazz Cafe on Saturday nights, with locals and tourists alike. In his early career, his ability to read music put him in demand for gigs that took him to parks, schools, churches, dance halls and even prisons. He has performed at every New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival since its 1. And for more than two decades, he's had his gig at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe where he was toasted on his birthday. Yet Ferbos went on to perform with some of the biggest names in traditional jazz, among them Captain John Handy, Walter Pichon and blues singer Mamie Smith. He also performed with saxophonist Harold Dejan and trumpeters Herbert Leary, Gene Ware and Sidney Desvignes. Ferbos said he was digging out one of the lagoons at New Orleans' City Park for the WPA when he was asked to join the band. Manual labor wasn't something foreign to him. Like many musicians of that era, Ferbos had a day trade. He worked for decades as a tinsmith, first in his father's French Quarter workshop, then eventually taking over the family business and building his own workshop. The business made everything from gutters and roofing material to air conditioning ducts for homes and businesses. His artistry in metal making was featured in the acclaimed exhibition on Creole building arts at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Despite his long music career, Ferbos made few early recordings. He played at clubs on South Rampart Street, the city strip that in the 1. After he joined the Ragtime and the Palm Court bands, he was recorded on several CDs on the GHB label. He is also featured on other recent recordings with New Orleans musicians. He rarely performed outside his hometown New Orleans, which is where he met his wife, Creole seamstress Margarite Gilyot. The couple married in 1. Friends and family say they were rarely seen apart before his wife's death in 2. It's a lesson to all of us out there to really treasure what life you have at the moment because it's so fleeting. At home, he practices often.. CD Reviews. Luther Kent, once the lead singer with Blood, Sweat & Tears, has been performing selected concert Dates - - like the Cotton Club in Japan - - with the DUKES. On the Friday of the second weekend of New Orleans' Jazz and Heritage Festival, he was featured in the Times Picayune. Here's the story... As international tours, a television role and bar ownership have come and gone, the groove keeps bringing Luther Kent back to the stage. By Kate Moran. Friday, May 4, 2. When Luther Kent was on a world tour with the band Blood, Sweat & Tears three decades ago, living the dream of singing to titanic crowds, he realized during a quiet moment in front of the mirror that the dream was dross. Fame has never been a narcotic for Kent, a rhythm and blues singer with a prodigious voice who, friends say, didn't want a life of rehashing the same hit songs to anonymous audiences in stadiums and on college campuses. Although Kent has flirted with bigger things - - the two- year tour as lead singer for Blood, Sweat & Tears and a singing role on the television musical . Some of them have been playing together since 1. Kent and guitarist Charlie Brent, who died last year, formed the band Trick Bag and started playing clubs in the French Quarter. Bourbon Street in those days had not yet morphed into a tawdry playpen for tourists, and musicians passing through the city on tour would often stop at bars like the Blue Saloon to hear Trick Bag's after- hours set. Kent and the others would take the stage about 2 a. They always brought sunglasses for the moment the sun singed their eyes as they emerged from the dark club. Boz Scaggs, Greg Allman, B. B. King and the Righteous Brothers all sat in with Kent as he sang late into the night. Etta James once sat on his lap and crooned for more than two hours, said Johnny Vodanovich, the owner of Monkey Hill and a friend who has known Kent for decades. You can tell he cares. Friends say he has shed considerable weight since he was diagnosed with diabetes about a year ago. But he still has a voice that can tame a six- piece horn section. Kent, a New Orleans native who started recording music before he emerged from puberty, said he grew up admiring the . He recently headlined the Cotton Club in Tokyo, and Trick Bag was among the local bands invited this year to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. It took a natural disaster to make the world aware of New Orleans music again.
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