The importance of having a creative outlet.
Duration : 3 min 24 sec
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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
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Song Title: “Dixie Jass Band One Step”
Also known as: “The Original Dixieland One Step”
This song is among the very FIRST of the recordings of Jass music. The year was 1917, and it was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB).
Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band ~ ~ ~
Dan Levinson – leader, clarinet & C-melody saxophone
Jon-Erik Kellso – trumpet
David Sager – trombone
Kevin Dorn – drums
Tom Roberts – piano
This performance by Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band is their own version of the piece that was performed in 1917.
I own the CD that Dan produced with 21 songs on it, and I highly recommend it. Every number is unique and exciting!
All of the songs are performed with loving care to be as nearly perfect as posible to the way the ODJB would have sounded if you could have listened to them live in the recording studio back when they made their original recordings.
Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band
Salutes the ODJB and the Beginning of Recorded Jazz
Here is a list of the songs on the CD ~
1. Livery Stable Blues 3:00
2. Dixie Jass Band One-Step (Introducing That Teasin\’ Rag) 2:32
3. I Lost My Heart in Dixieland 3:49
4. Palesteena 2:53
5. Hawaiian Butterfly (Introducing Rose Room) 2:57
6. At the Jazz Band Ball 2:36
7. Alice Blue Gown 3:52
8. Swanee 2:39
9. Sweet Mamma (Papa\’s Getting Mad) (Introducing Strut Miss Lizzie 3:17
10. Ostrich Walk 3:16
11. Home Again Blues (Introducing Lindy) 2:57
12. Tell Me 3:50
13. Oh By Jingo! (Introducing Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia) 2:44
14. Jazz Me Blues 2:59
15. Clarinet Marmalade 2:44
16. Satanic Blues 3:53
17. The Sheik of Araby (Introducing Hindustan) 2:31
18. Skeleton Jangle 2:48
19. Rambling Blues 2:13
20. Margie (Introducing Singin\’ the Blues) 3:14
21. Tiger Rag 2:57
This song was one of several I recorded of Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band while attending the Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival held in Davenport, Iowa. This was at a set in the famous Col Ballroom, and the band was wonderful.
_ 2010 July 7/23/10
Duration : 0:6:21
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Song Title: “Livery Stable Blues”
As time passed this piece was also referred to as the “Barn Yard Blues.” It is the very FIRST recording of Jass music. The year was 1917, and it was recorded by the Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB).
Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band ~ ~ ~
Dan Levinson – leader, clarinet & C-melody saxophone
Jon-Erik Kellso – trumpet
David Sager – trombone
Kevin Dorn – drums
Tom Roberts – piano
This performance by Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band is a recreation of the piece as it was performed in 1917. The instruments used and the musical arrangement is as near exact as possible.
I own the CD that Dan produced with 21 songs on it, and I highly recommend it. Every number is unique and exciting!
All of the songs are performed with loving care to be as nearly perfect as posible to the way the ODJB would have sounded if you could have listened to them live in the recording studio back when they made their original recordings.
Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band
Salutes the ODJB and the Beginning of Recorded Jazz
Here is a list of the songs on the CD ~
1. Livery Stable Blues 3:00
2. Dixie Jass Band One-Step (Introducing That Teasin\’ Rag) 2:32
3. I Lost My Heart in Dixieland 3:49
4. Palesteena 2:53
5. Hawaiian Butterfly (Introducing Rose Room) 2:57
6. At the Jazz Band Ball 2:36
7. Alice Blue Gown 3:52
8. Swanee 2:39
9. Sweet Mamma (Papa\’s Getting Mad) (Introducing Strut Miss Lizzie 3:17
10. Ostrich Walk 3:16
11. Home Again Blues (Introducing Lindy) 2:57
12. Tell Me 3:50
13. Oh By Jingo! (Introducing Everything is Peaches Down in Georgia) 2:44
14. Jazz Me Blues 2:59
15. Clarinet Marmalade 2:44
16. Satanic Blues 3:53
17. The Sheik of Araby (Introducing Hindustan) 2:31
18. Skeleton Jangle 2:48
19. Rambling Blues 2:13
20. Margie (Introducing Singin\’ the Blues) 3:14
21. Tiger Rag 2:57
This song was one of several I recorded of Dan Levinson’s Roof Garden Jass Band while attending the Annual Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival held in Davenport, Iowa. This was at a set in the famous Col Ballroom, and the band was wonderful.
_ 2010 July 7/23/10
Duration : 0:3:46
Me doing the things I love most. 
Tee Don Landry, premiere maker and player of the Zydeco rubboard (www.keyofzrubboards.com), and Mister MOJO, of MOJO & The Bayou Gypsies (www.redhotmojo.com), teach you to play the Zydeco Rubboard (Frottoir).
The Zydeco Rubboard (Frottoir) is one of only a few instruments invented in America. Originally designed by Clifton Chenier and made by Willie Landry in 1946, the Zydeco Rubboard is in the Smithsonian. Enjoy this piece of American Musical History, learn to play, and have a ball!
Rubboards by Tee Don, keyofzrubboards.com .
Music by MOJO & The Bayou Gypsies, www.redhotmojo.com .
Duration : 0:0:18
This tune is listed as Dans a Carre. However “stonemanherny” tells us that “The song is “Danse Carre’”, Square Dance. Cajuns weren’t allowed to speak French at school, much less write or spell it; therefore the names of songs often got lost. Dennis Magee recorded a version, some years ago. ”
Thank you stonemanherny!
Be sure to watch through to the amazing ending as 15 year old Amanda Shaw entertains the crowd at Lakeside Mall in Metairie, LA just 2 months after Katrina.
Duration : 0:5:11
Chapter one of the making of the tune "The Race" and the vlog/album/movie The New York Love Songs
Duration : 1 min 49 sec
Here is the opening and closing themes, with credits, from the 1987 New Orleans film “The Big Easy” starring Dennis Quaid as Renny McSwain and Ellen Barkin as Anne Osborne. The opening theme is the fantastic Beau Soleil with their rousing rendition of “Zydeco Gris Gris”. The closing theme is provided by legendary Buckwheat Zydeco and his “Buck’s Nouvelle Jolen Blon”. I fell in love with Louisiana and the Cajun/Creole culture from seeing this movie before I ever lived there.
Duration : 0:6:21
Ryan’s web site – http://www.captainfiddle.com Ryan demonstrates an english banjo from London maker Leon Clerc. He plays his original tune “Great Bay Stomp” which is taught in his clawhammer banjo video DVD/book instructional course. Ryan is a multi instrumentalist fluent in numerous instruments including piano, violin, fiddle, accordion, celtic flute, and pennywhistle. Visit his web site to see descriptions of his tune books, videos, recordings, and books.
Duration : 0:4:47