"Hot Town & All By Myself" - Tuba Skinny (French Quarter Festival)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Watch all the way to the end to get the full French Quarter Festival experience. It will leave you smiling. At the Jackson Square stage, April 22, 2022.
What a great pair of rousing tunes! All of the solos were outstanding and I loved that Greg got right up on the mike. I feel that sometimes he pulls away on the last word or two of lines and I have some difficulty understanding his words. He didn't do that too much on "All By Myself" and I loved listening to him. He has a great way of interpreting songs.
Way to go Tuba Skinny. These songs were just outstanding!
Amen. Greg’s mic technique has much improved.
Makes another day worth living👍😂Thanks James, thank you Tuba Skinny.
Soy Colombiano y un fan de esta banda de Jazz, son muy originales
la trompetista tiene unos arreglos musicales muy buenos.
Mi sueño es verlos en vivo y disfrutar de su buena música
Todos son espectaculares
Deseándoles lo mejor de los exitos
Brilliant, so much fun, energy and warmth. Thank you all.
A fine effort by the band. Love to hear everyone sing in call and response. Thanks James, for another excellent recording. I love that you position yourself near the rhythm section. It makes for very good balance. Cheers and Happy fourth. May we all survive the nuttiness we are witnessing. Music helps So Much!
HI POPS COFFEE, I FOR ONE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR KNOWLEDGABLE CONTRIBUTIONS.
And me
Pops is a national treasure! As is Tuba Skinny. In Japan they would be venerated.
The best!😍❣
Many thanks, James. For anyone who hasn't had enough of my tedious and pedantic attempts to provide a commentary: 'Hot Town' - depicting a train journey to 'Hot Town' and reaching the destination at the end of the piece - was composed in 1929 by clarinet-playing bandleader Fess Williams and recorded in New York that year by Fess Williams and His Royal Flush Orchestra. Tuba Skinny copy the Introduction of the original and then sensibly omit the vocal patter while making the 'railway' noises before Shaye (from 00:48 to 01:20) is the first to play the 32-bar theme. Fess Williams' original version is full of ideas but I think Tuba Skinny's quicker tempo and plentiful clever tricks make their version even more enjoyable than his. After Shaye states the Theme, it is played five more times:
01:21 : Ensemble; but with Barnabus leading in the final 16 bars
01:53 : Craig improvises over the 32 bars, but with Shaye and Barnabus backing him in the Middle Eight
02:25 : Ensemble, but with Max leading in the final 16 bars
02:57 : Robin takes the 32 bars, against stop chords (but note the clever triple stop chords in the Middle Eight)
03:29 : Ensemble with trombone 'echoing' effect - closely copied from the Fess Williams original; Shaye takes the Middle Eight as a solo. Note the clever ending, with rallentando and extra two bars, to bring the train journey to an end. Played entirely in the key of B flat.
'All By Myself' is a 12-bar played in C.
Pops,
I only understand a little of it but
enjoy everything you write.
Thanks, Louis. I don't understand as much about music as I would like, either!
I adore you. Keep it up Pops.
Pops Coffee, I enjoy your commentary as much as I enjoy listening to Tuba Skinny. I just bought your book off of amazon & look forward to reading it. Thank you, for sharing your commentary with us. It is certainly appreciated.
Don't never think your breakdown of the songs is not welcomed. At least in my book.
Thank you for the time you take to do it.
A mighty fine performance of this lovely old classic. Bravo! TS never disappoints❤️
Once again our man on the spot James Sterling puts right on the front row of the best music out there. Thanks for sharing James and I hope you have a wonderful 4th of July!
Thanks Mark. Hope your Independence Day is a good one also.
The next best thing to being at FQF in person is to watch this video. Jim: you have captured not only Tuba Skinny and their music but also the ambience in the park so well. Thanks a million!
Amazing, what energy! Amusing angle, feels like one is in the band! Ambience, tons of it!
Thank you, James Sterling, for recording and posting! Gratitude to Tuba Skinny for the music!
(Have used all my exclamation marks, must get some more).
You guys are fantastic. Have watched 50-60. Keep it going. Makes life better knowing someone is so nature and having fun.
Dig around my channel archives and you will find several hundred Tuba Skinny videos I've recorded over the past 7 years. Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already so will get notifications of new videos. More on the way!
yeah ... yeah ... James ... ;-) ... thank you !
And I'm happy again! Ador-re you!
Bravooo.... 👏👏👏💙 🇮🇹
Absolutely Fantastic!!! Great video and audio. The Fess Williams tune "Hot Town" is one of these livley furious tunes that only Tuba Skinny can play it so brilliant. What a great number!!!! and great the wahsboard solo by Robin. The crowd enjoyed it so much.
And "All By Myself a great Greg song. Lovely cornet solo by Shaye. Her tone sounds so sweet.
Lovely Regards to you Dave from Berlin Germany.
Agreed. "Hot Town" is my new favorite by the band.
am 21.7 im HKW in Berlin
Non-stop great TS. Dzieki.
Soy latino ( colombia) admiro mucho este grupo musical , muy buena música jazz muy original excelentes intérpretes
Felicitaciones deseándoles grandes éxitos
Yes, many thanks James. I live in the UK, I’m very excited that I’m going to see Tuba Skinny in Brittany later in the month. They are my go to source of joy. Amongst many pleasures I love the fluent movement of music between them. James
You guys are the VERY BEST EVER!
Always love the toe tapping music of TS. Miss Erica's vocals, hope she's doin' well 😎
Fantastic
Congrats with the 4th of July! Be happy and make all of us happy!
Love the group,shaye is amazing,everyone is so talented,love it.
Happy July 2nd. You made my ears cry from musical bliss.
Oh yeah, always a treat to my ears! All by myself indeed.
Wow 🤩 what a performance
We got a two for one.
Thanks a bunch James.
Old Fess did a good job on this tune but TS has brought it forward into the future and it sounds great. Just a flat out excellent job.
Once again thanks mate just love them
Happy Saturday!
Wonderful!
Y’all are freakin great!! Y’all please travel a lil north to Bossier City!!
You are only about 300 miles from New Orleans. Heck, I drive almost that 5 or 6 times a year to see them in New Orleans. Check their schedule when they get back from touring this fall and make a weekend of it in New Orleans. You won't regret it.
😀Obrigada James.por esse sábado alegre e feliz.Sempre procurando o melhor ângulo para nos brindar com essa maravilhosa banda.Adoro o seu yeah yeah yeah no final da música.
ALL BY MYSELF!! One of my faves. Thank you!
Outstanding video. The quality of the audio is getting better James. Thanks very much!
Thanks. That audio actually came from my cell phone camera, one I got earlier this year. It really does have excellent mics. I also recorded this with my separate Tascam PCM recorder but the camera audio sounded better.
This is just great!
Cool beans love it
Weltklasse 🎶 wie immer. Vielen Dank für die Aufnahme aus Sachsen 👍
Schön einen deutschen Fan von Tuba Skinny hier zu finden. Durch einen glücklichen Zufall fand ich Tuba Skinny auf UA-cam vor ca. 5 Jahren, Seitdem bin ich ein glühender Fan der Band geworden. Liebe Grüße aus Berlin nach Sachsen.
@@emiliolopezify Ich bin vor gut 2Jahren durch Zufall drauf gestoßen. Sollte man auch mal nach Deutschland holen. Gruß zurück nach Berlin
@@berndreufsteck7577 Gute Nachricht: Tuba Skinny tritt am 21. Juli beim "Wassermusik-Festival" hier in Berlin auf ... im Haus der Kulturen der Welt, um 19 Uhr ... Ticket € 20
Danke für die Info. Da bin ich dabei. Wie kommt man an Karten?
@@berndreufsteck7577 Tickets gibts online > (you tube verweigert leider das einfügen des links) ... d.h. suchen unter HKW / Berlin / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Wassermusik-Festival ... !
Tuba Skinny "live" ist nochmal ein ganz "anderes" Erlebnis ... die blasen einen richtig weg ... ;-)
Großartige Band ! 👏👌 Grüße aus Tirol 👋😘
Hello, I found surfing YouTuBe and had to say that they are wonderful with nice rhythms and vibes. I’m from Puerto Rico and I hope some day see I live performances on the FQ. Happy Four.
Lovely jazz. Just keep ‘em coming like this - love everything you stand for. I came to ”Norlins”about five years ago, but was upset that you guys weren’t in town. When are you coming to the UK?
Jist Fair Brilliant
Pearler ! !🙏
Thanks!
Thank you Bill!
Ripper !
Thanks James, I am sure that loads of Tuba Skinny fans smile with delight when they see you have posted yet another video - not to be missed! A.
More to come!
Спасибо, James, за Ваш просветительский труд и преданность этому бриллианту джаза!
Hot stuff!
Thank you xxx :-)
It seems like Max is playing banjo more often now that Jason has left the band.
Yes he is but he is playing a 4 string banjo, a more traditional jazz instrument than the 6 string banjo Jason played.
He also plays it like it was played a hundred years ago. So many banjoists do modern takes on these old songs and they just don’t fit right. Great music and great playing - great arraignments too.
Does anyone know if Erika is touring with the band on this trip to Europe?
Yes, she's in on it...!!