![]() ![]() Jack Pritchett’s trumpet on Love Songs Of The Nile sounds fresh and alive but it’s not all blast and thunder, when the suit is hearts he’s a teddy bear. Rhythms spill over in syncopation and are compulsively juggled in handfuls then flung wildly away. The horns growl, hiss, cough and squeak as notes bend, break, weaken, collapse and leave home. The sounds on their new album Mean Tones And High Notes grow hair go blind and explode. There is a coruscating musical tradition to draw from in the city of New Orleans and their aim is to bring that music and those great musical ideas into the future and to play them with reverence and gratitude for those who created and lived them. Smoking Time Jazz Club is celebrating their tenth year as a working traditional jazz band in New Orleans. Musicians are modern day healers, griots, culture bearers and repositories of oral tradition. It transforms and transports and leads us to another place and helps us forget our troubles. ![]() The city’s music is it’s rhythmical unguent, a melodic tisane born of the earth and the characters of it’s inhabitants. Nominated by Offbeat Magazine’s “Best Of The Beat” Awards:īest Traditional Jazz Band and Best Traditional Jazz Album Of 2022Įverything is oaks and herbs my nerbs.
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