Danny Barker in New Orleans - early 20th Century
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 20-21:
The marching brass bands used more instruments than the dance bands. And those brass bands could play legitimate marches, the same marches the Army Band of the United States would play for the President if he died. They could play beautiful hymns and marches, like "Nearer my God to Thee" and "Maryland, My Maryland". But when they came back from a funeral-- and the band, by the way, never went into the cemetery when the band played for a funeral--well, on the way back, they'd put their music in their pockets and everybody started wailing.
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 20-21. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433412232516 accessed: 16 October, 2024
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Nearer, My God, to Thee
written by Sarah F. Adams, Lowell Mason |
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Maryland, my Maryland | |
brass band hymns | |
marching brass band music |
Experience Information
Date/Time | early 20th Century |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |