★★★★★
Track Listing: That's It!; Dear Lord (Give Me The Strength); Come With Me; Sugar Plum;
Rattlin' Bones; I Think I Love You; August Nights; Halfway Right;
Halfway Wrong; Yellow Moon; The Darker It Gets; Emmalena's Lullaby Personnel: Mark Braud, trumpet; Ben Jaffe, string bass, sousaphone; Ronell
Johnson, sousaphone; Clint Maedgen, tenor sax, clarinet & vocals;
Rickie Monie, piano, Joe Lastie, drums; Freddie Lonzo, trombone;
Charlie Gabriel, clarinet Record Label: Sony BMG Legacy Style:...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-01-29
★★★★★
Baritone saxophonist Ronnie Cuber's third release for SteepleChase predates his association with the label, and might be thought of as a happy accident. At the titular fest, in 2008, Cuber's quartet--with pianist Kenny Drew Jr., electric bassist Ruben Rodriguez and drummer Ben Perowsky--played a two-set show that the four remembered as a highlight of their European tour...
- jazztimes.com
2013-08-04
★★★★★
A band with the word "preservation" in its name now has an album of all new material. To me, that only seems fair. Here's a band that gave itself the task, way back in the early '60s, of preserving New Orleans jazz for future generations. Many members have come and gone, giving the impression that the preservation of the songs and the swing style were more of a priority than those who played it. That means that all of these guys can play "When the Saints Go Marching In" in their sleep...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-07-08
★★★★★
Legacy In order to broaden their once-traditional New Orleans music reach, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band have recently collaborated with everyone from My Morning Jacket to Del McCoury. That's It!, co-produced by band leader Ben Jaffe and MMJ singer Jim James, finds the band making their first album of all original compositions...
- www.relix.com
2013-07-08
★★★★★
Ever since they covered a Kinks song (granted, a Kinks song already steeped in New Orleans jazz) on '07s Hurricane Sessions collection, it's been clear that the Preservation Hall Jazz Band was ready to go outside the traditional box. But not too far outside, and the venerable group maintained a tricky balancing act over the past few years--raising its profile to an all-time high with a string of unlikely collaborations, but still basing its repertoire on the time-honored tunes...
- www.offbeat.com
2013-06-27
★★★★★
Before Jazz became the intellectual atelier of post-war America, we had a much different take on the style. In the '20s it formed the soundtrack to the drinking, dancing, and whoring of our grandparents. It was their party music, and it was despised from the pulpits to the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, even if the despisers went out to sample the favorite sin of prohibition. You know, just so they knew what they were talking about...
- www.ink19.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
To celebrate their 50th anniversary the Preservation Hall Jazz Band took their show on the road to one of the most famous stages in the world, Carnegie Hall. Inviting friends along for the event the group played their hot style of jazz and blues to a receptive crowd on a cold New York City night and their newest release St. Peter & 57th St. is a live recording of that eventful night...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2013-01-04
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDDownload as MP3Preservation Hall Jazz Band50th Anniversary CollectionSony Music Classical2012 Preservation Hall is a great American music institution. It started in 1961, when Allan Jaffe and his wife decided to open a venue for the veteran musicians of New Orleans, and since then, different Preservation Hall bands, sometimes including Jaffe and his son Ben, have kept the music alive...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-11-15
★★★★★
Preservation Hall was set up 50 years ago to give New Orleans musicians somewhere to play. It survived floods, tourism and the absence of a drink licence and is now internationally renowned. The first and second generations have passed on but the music is as strong as ever. This celebration, recorded live at Carnegie Hall, features the present band plus such New Orleans heroes as Allen Toussaint and Trombone Shorty...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-10-08
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