Savoy Music Center 2009 Jazz Festival
Last year, the Jazz Festival invited the Savoy Music Center (Eunice, La) “Saturday Morning Jammers” to perform. They were such a big hit that the festival organizers invited them to perform again this year. They were all excited and honored. No practice, no rehersals…. just get on stage and JAM! Several of them sang old French songs which really pleased the crowd. They all made beautiful music together. Their performance was again a huge success!
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Photos were taken by Robert LeBlanc and Carl Breazeale-
Music by Marc and Ann Savoy-
Video by Cindy Brown LeBlanc
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“Not being professional doesn’t prevent making good music.”
“Not being professional doesn’t prevent being entertaining.”
“Being professional doesn’t mean jumping around and tearing up your instruments.”
“Being natural and feeling your music is what is important.”
Marc Savoy
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The Carlton Music Bar & Grill – Brian Bourne on Chapman Stick,
Brian Bourne on electric bass and Chapman Stick
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the revolutionary two-handed tapping method of parallel hands discovered by Emmett Chapman on guitar in 1969 and taught since then to players around the world.
With Emmett’s Free Hands method, both of your hands are equal partners. As they approach the fretboard from opposite sides, your fingers line up parallel to the frets and a powerful new musical language emerges – bass lines, lead melodies, chords, and rhythm, simultaneously, and in any combination you desire.
Today thousands of musicians are making their own music with our Stick, Grand Stick, Stick Bass and NS/Stick fretboard tapping instruments. Emmett continues to expand on his original concepts by adding to the variety of Stick models, features and tunings – defining the state of the art in tapping instruments.
The Stick comes from the guitar and bass, but its playing method shares roots with keyboards and drums as well, placing all of these musical voices in the hands of one musician. The Stick is unique, expansive, versatile, like each of its players. It is a blank slate upon which to “tap your potential.”
Duration : 0:2:39
Corey Ledet – 8. Cajun & Zydeco Music Festival D-Soest
I’m Coming Home -taken during 3rd Stop of 8th Annual Cajun & Zydeco Music Festival, Soest, Germany November 2008
Duration : 0:5:15
Rhythm&Roots_2010_C.J.Chenier_2
C. J. Chenier (born Clayton Joseph Thompson, September 28, 1957, Port Arthur, Texas, is the Creole son of the Grammy Award winning “King of Zydeco”, Louisiana musician, Clifton Chenier. In 1987, Chenier followed in his father’s footsteps, and led his father’s band as an accordion performer of Zydeco, a blend of Cajun and Creole music. With five previous albums to his credit, by 1994, Chenier began to record on his father’s Alligator label. Chenier grew up away from his father in the 1960s, in the housing projects of his native Port Arthur, Texas.[1] There, Chenier was aware of, but not exposed to his father’s music as a young child, and had not heard the word Zydeco until later in his youth. Instead, Chenier developed tastes in the 1970s soul, funk and jazz music of James Brown, Funkadelic, John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Upon first listening to his father’s music, Chenier thought all the songs sounded the same. But he eventually began to appreciate and master the zydeco style, as he later joined and then took over his father’s band and career. The first instrument Chenier learned to play was the saxophone. As a teenager in the early 1970s he played in black Top 40 bands in Port Arthur. By the mid 1970s Chenier went to college to study music.
In 1978 his father invited Chenier to play his saxophone with The Red Hot Louisiana Band, whose members also included his Uncle, Cleveland Chenier, on washboard.[2] By 1985, as his father was growing ill from diabetes, he invited Chenier to start playing the accordion in a larger role with the band, and to open the shows.
In 1987, the year his father died, Chenier continued his own musical career where his father left off. He has since played such venues as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, San Diego’s Street Scene and Milwaukee’s Summerfest.
Paul Simon first heard Chenier in 1990, and featured him on the The Rhythm of the Saints album, and that year’s ‘Born At The Right Time’ tour. In 1992 Chenier played accordion on “Cajun Song”, a track on the Gin Blossoms’ album, New Miserable Experience.
1992 saw Chenier featured with the Red Hot Louisiana Band on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits. [3]
By October 1994 Chenier was signed by Alligator. His debut release there was Too Much Fun, named the next year as best zydeco album of 1995 by Living Blues Magazine. In 1995, Chenier gained his widest audience to date with television appearances on the Jon Stewart Show and CNN. His 1996 appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was featured in a segment by the VH1 cable music television network, as well as by Entertainment Weekly.
Duration : 0:4:21
Rhythm&Roots_2010_C.J. Chenier
C. J. Chenier (born Clayton Joseph Thompson, September 28, 1957, Port Arthur, Texas, is the Creole son of the Grammy Award winning “King of Zydeco”, Louisiana musician, Clifton Chenier. In 1987, Chenier followed in his father’s footsteps, and led his father’s band as an accordion performer of Zydeco, a blend of Cajun and Creole music. With five previous albums to his credit, by 1994, Chenier began to record on his father’s Alligator label. Chenier grew up away from his father in the 1960s, in the housing projects of his native Port Arthur, Texas.[1] There, Chenier was aware of, but not exposed to his father’s music as a young child, and had not heard the word Zydeco until later in his youth. Instead, Chenier developed tastes in the 1970s soul, funk and jazz music of James Brown, Funkadelic, John Coltrane and Miles Davis.
Upon first listening to his father’s music, Chenier thought all the songs sounded the same. But he eventually began to appreciate and master the zydeco style, as he later joined and then took over his father’s band and career. The first instrument Chenier learned to play was the saxophone. As a teenager in the early 1970s he played in black Top 40 bands in Port Arthur. By the mid 1970s Chenier went to college to study music.
In 1978 his father invited Chenier to play his saxophone with The Red Hot Louisiana Band, whose members also included his Uncle, Cleveland Chenier, on washboard.[2] By 1985, as his father was growing ill from diabetes, he invited Chenier to start playing the accordion in a larger role with the band, and to open the shows.
In 1987, the year his father died, Chenier continued his own musical career where his father left off. He has since played such venues as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, San Diego’s Street Scene and Milwaukee’s Summerfest.
Paul Simon first heard Chenier in 1990, and featured him on the The Rhythm of the Saints album, and that year’s ‘Born At The Right Time’ tour. In 1992 Chenier played accordion on “Cajun Song”, a track on the Gin Blossoms’ album, New Miserable Experience.
1992 saw Chenier featured with the Red Hot Louisiana Band on the PBS music television program Austin City Limits. [3]
By October 1994 Chenier was signed by Alligator. His debut release there was Too Much Fun, named the next year as best zydeco album of 1995 by Living Blues Magazine. In 1995, Chenier gained his widest audience to date with television appearances on the Jon Stewart Show and CNN. His 1996 appearance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival was featured in a segment by the VH1 cable music television network, as well as by Entertainment Weekly.
Duration : 0:4:27
“I Got Rhythm” ~ Ballyhoo Foxtrot Orchestra & Amy Burgmaier @ Bix Beiderbecke Jazz Fest ~ July 2010
http://www.bixsociety.org
http://www.ballyhoofoxtrot.com
http://amyburgmaier.com
Song Title: “I Got Rhythm” composed by George Gershwin
What fabulous orchestra and wonderful singer. I could listen to them from now on! This is 1920′s music like it sounded in 1920 – - SPECTACULAR!
This performance was captured on July 24th, 2010 during the annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival held in Davenport, Iowa.
Ballyhoo Foxtrot Orchestra ~ BAND MEMBERS
JOHN BENOIT (leader, arranger, trombone, piano)
JIM BOVINETTE (trumpet)
KURT BOWERMASTER (drums)
BOB LOHRENZ (banjo)
JAMIE POULSEN (piano)
MICHAEL SHORT (tuba)
DAN STEVENSON (clarinet, tenor saxophone)
AMY BURGMAIER (guest vocalist)
Founded in 2005, the BALLYHOO FOXTROT ORCHESTRA is a vintage ensemble dedicated to recreating the jazz and popular music of the 1910s and 1920s. The eight-piece ensemble employs an instrumentation that enables the group to perform a wide variety of musical genres from the period, including foxtrots, Dixieland jazz, blues, novelty songs, waltzes, tangos, cabaret, patriotic songs, and light classical music. So whether the occasion calls for the Art Deco elegance of the Great Gatsby or the zany exuberance of a Prohibition-era speakeasy, the BALLYHOO FOXTROT ORCHESTRA can supply just the right music.
In 2008, the BFO recorded its first CD, titled “I’m Gonna Jazz My Way.” The CD features nineteen songs that trace the life story of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald.
In 2007, the BALLYHOO FOXTROT ORCHESTRA was added to the Iowa Arts Council’s Performing Artist Roster. Qualifying organizations may apply for matching funds when hiring the BFO.
The BALLYHOO FOXTROT ORCHESTRA has recently recorded its first CD, titled “I’m Gonna Jazz My Way.”
Here is a list of the songs on it.
High Society
Tiger Rag
Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning!
Stars Fell on Alabama
I Want to Be Bad
It Had to Be You
Can’t We Be Friends?
Yes Sir! That’s My Baby
Shake Your Shimmy
I Wanna Be Loved by You
Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me
Je cherche aprés Titine
Il pleut sur la route
Au bord de l’eau
Kismet
Mood Indigo
The Mooche
The Song is Ended
I’m Gonna Jazz My Way
_ 7/24/10 July 24th, 2010
Duration : 0:3:49
