Young Fellas Brass Band – April 10, 2011 – Frenchmen St., New Orleans, LA
the amazing street band that drew a bigger crowd than was seemingly in all of the clubs lining Frenchmen St. – they played a hard jazz, a punk jazz, or a free style jazz that was still incredibly listenable and danceable – was immeasurably more interesting to me than that old played out same-style jazz you hear all over New Orleans, but they told us that the clubs won’t hire them to play – maybe because they’re clearly from the poorer parts of New Orleans – it amused me that in New Orleans, it’s cool, even for street kids, to play band-geek instruments like the trumpet and trombone