Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Tom Waits - "Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing" - 78RPM Record
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- Опубліковано 12 лис 2010
- PRESERVATION HALL RECORDINGS TO RELEASE LIMITED EDITION RECORDING
FEATURING TOM WAITS AND THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
ON 78RPM VINYL FORMAT
On November 19th, 2010, Preservation Hall Recordings will release 504 LIMITED EDITION, hand numbered, 78rpm format vinyl records featuring two tracks by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with very special guest Tom Waits. The proceeds from the sales of this very special project will benefit the Preservation Hall Junior Jazz & Heritage Brass Band, the cornerstone of the Preservation Hall music outreach program in partnership with The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.
"In New Orleans, our musical traditions are passed down from one generation to the next. I was very fortunate to grow up at the feet of so many masterful musicians. It's one of Preservation Hall's missions to ensure the future of our musical heritage. Our music outreach program guarantees our musical legacy will live on through another generation." says Creative Director of Preservation Hall and son of the Hall's founders, Ben Jaffe.
Mr. Waits traveled to New Orleans to record two songs with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the critically-acclaimed project PRESERVATION: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, "Tootie Ma Was A Big Fine Thing" and "Corrine Died On The Battlefield". Originally recorded by Danny Barker in 1947, these two selections are the earliest known recorded examples of Mardi Gras Indian chants.
Inspired by the original recordings, the two recently recorded tracks are being released in a beautifully designed, limited-edition 78 rpm format vinyl record, each signed and numbered by Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe. The first one hundred records will be accompanied by a custom designed Preservation Hall 78rpm record player(also plays 33 1/3 & 45 rpm records, see specs beow) as part of a Deluxe Donation package. The remaining four hundred and four will be available as a standalone record for the Basic Donation package.
Both packages will be available for IN-PERSON PURCHASE at Preservation Hall in New Orleans on November 19, 2010 from 10am-5pm Central Standard Time, and for ONLINE PURCHASE at www.preservationhall.com at 12:01am CST, November 20, 2010.
Packages will be limited to one per person.
-Deluxe Donation Tier: $200 -- INCLUDES: Limited Edition 78rpm record
AND the limited edition, custom-made Preservation Hall 78 record player(#1-100)
-Basic Donation Tier: $50 -- INCLUDES: Limited Edition 78rpm record only (#101-504)
I'm not much of a dancer, but my spirit refused to be modest and busted out dancing upon hearing this groove laden tune. GROOOOOOOVYYYYYY!!!!
Waits=Genius.
Mard Gras= Happiness.
Toootie Ma = ?
If you ain't moving to this, Jack, you dead.
thank you thank you thank you thank you! goes great with Jameson!
The feline cameo is priceless!!! :-)
Great New Orleans sound and he almost sounds like Louis Armstrong on vocals!! Great 78 record...Friends, Lloyd.
fucking perfect.
Absolutely AMAZING.
things like these makes me wish i lived in the u.s.a...
funky funky funky! Couldn't help but grooove man.
Good Bass!
what a great track, get these guys on board for a whole album
Mr. Waits and PH... this is a treasure!
@jpetersgoyanks The tracks are available on CD and for download. They were originally released on the Deluxe version of the February 2010 release "Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program"
Always loved this tune. I am not sure but I think you will hear Indian Chants in some of Jelly Roll Morton's stuff which predates this. Danny Barker was such a character. This tune is more recently covered by another of his students and torchbearers, Herlin Riley the modern drum master perhaps better known for playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. I think you can find it here somewhere.
this is awesome! Wow.
AND HOW! Fine, fine sounds and a beautiful player, to boot!
aw man is this jazz i really need more lol
this song sent shivers through m e when i heard it on treme
Whoa ! Great tune!
14 soulless clods thumbs-downed this gem! This song is Magic! I like to play it into a big pot of gumbo or jambalaya, etc. to help it on its way! ;)
great as usual, our Tommasino!
.....wow...loved it...great post! And I wanna get one of the turntable suitcases now....
Tootie Ma is a big fine thing. That's all we need to know :-) !
The cat tho lol
@preservationhall Hey thanks man, great to know.
tootie ma is likely a play on "Tootie" Montana a legendary Mardi Gras Indian. You can look him and the Indians up on Wikipedia. The lyrics "big fine thing" make perfect sense if you look into it.
It would be very nice if they would reissue other songs by different artists on 78 rpm...
Saw it on Ebay....
Love Tom Waits, but Clint Maedgen KILLS on this tune with the PHJB. That Ben Jaffe Jr. & company have brought traditional New Orleans music kicking & screraming into the 21st century is ALSO a Big Fine Thing.
I agree 100% that Clint Maedgen kills on this song! Love Tom Waits, too, but Clint is the new blood!
gah, I wants me some of that sound, plz send Tom downunder STAT!
Ο Θωμάς Περιμένει.
2:12 KITTEH NOOO
Great track! This is only available as a record, too bad. Hopefully TW gets back in the studio for an album of originals. His musical juices must be flowing after making this.
Modern microphones , recorded through a modern board. Is it a vinyl surface that's played at. 78 rpm ?
HD quality!!!
But how could this be? :-)
Will there be any 78's available without Tom Waits?
anyone knows if there is a ''studio version'' of this on youtube. i love it.
@seanberney Info is above!
amazing!!! when/where is it available?
"Im gonna knock on her door!!!"
Can I have some help with the lyrics? Please!
Love that song
The lyrics to some of these old Mardi Gras Indian songs are kind of complicated. They’re a hodgepodge of Creole French, African and Native American chants. The words were passed down orally from generation to generation, so on a lot of them, there’s just phonetic spelling and the definitions and translations were lost a long time ago.
Vinyl or shellac?
Can anyone make out the lyrics to this? lol
I Highly Doubt That Claim, Correlation Does Not Show Causation, Unfourtunatly Not Much Info Is Avialiable On The Background Of The Song, Though The Theme Is Fairly Obvious, And Has Nothing To Do With Tootie Montana...
@jpetersgoyanks And what's wrong with that??
TW goes BIG EASY not BIG TIME!
legendary cut, but much better without waits. he's fucking awful
sargejr51 You are a fucking idiot