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Happy Mardi Gras (with some celestial music)

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2016-02-07 23:33

This is Mardi Gras week 2016 in New Orleans, and the music keeps rolling along with the parades through the big event on Tuesday. Clarinetist Ed Hall (born in nearby Reserve, Louisiana), continued the line of early New Orleans jazz clarinetists by developing his own personal style, often more in the lenten mood of Ash Wednesday than the wild spirit of Mardi Gras. In the 1940s, when Artie Shaw had his Grammercy Five, Ed Hall had his introspective "chamber music jazz" too, the Celeste Quartet, which included a celeste instead of a piano, blended with the sometimes bluesy, sometimes boppish guitar of Charlie Christian.

Taking us away from the loud bass drum and blaring brass of the parades, they play "Profoundly Blue 2" here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zapjJMP_hEV.

Post Edited (2016-02-08 02:59)

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