Showing posts with label brass. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brass. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Catch . . .


She said it was almost time 
For me to go
I said I was feeling fine 
And waxing so poetic
I was the silver-tongued devil
At least in my own eyes
How I lied
Oh how I tried

I want to catch the brass ring
Before it passes me by
I want to catch the brass ring
It's something that I just
Have to try
Please don't ask me why

I said I'm not gonna whine
Because I know
About the way they operate
And where they go for breakfast
In this exclusive and privileged world
You will find me
Sometime soon
Sometime soon

I want to catch the brass ring
Before it passes me by
I want to catch the brass ring
It's something that I just
Have to try
Please don't ask me why

Would you ask a child 
What he likes about candy
Would you ask a dog not to bite
Would you ask the sun not to shine
Or the stars not to 
Twinkle from their heights

Everybody's not the same
You ought to know
Whether they strictly be mundane
Are they the life of the party
In the confusion 
I'm easily forced to my corner
Of the room
In the gloom

I want to catch the brass ring
Before it passes me by
I want to catch the brass ring
It's something that I just
Have to try
Please don't ask me why


The Brass Ring
©2004 by Ray Jozwiak




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Thursday, October 23, 2014

Trombone. . .

. . . shorty. . . 
(apologies to Mr. DeVito) It WAS in a movie title. . .



Six degrees (and then some) of separation. . . a friend has a son whose best man at his wedding was . . . Trombone Shorty . . . and I don't know him, but I love his music. . . and everyone else at the table never heard of him . . .


(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombone_Shorty)
(Troy) Andrews was born in New Orleans. He grew up in its Tremé neighborhood, and participated in brass band parades as a child, becoming a bandleader by the age of six.
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, 1991: "Carlsberg Brass Band" from Denmark with young "Trombone Shorty" Troy Andrews on trombone.

In his teens, Andrews was a member of the Stooges Brass Band, recording and playing with the band.[2] He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA).

In 2005, Andrews was a featured member of Lenny Kravitz's horn section in a world tour that shared billing with acts including Aerosmith.

Six weeks after the levees failed in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, some of the city's greatest musicians went to Austin, Texas, to record a benefit CD called Sing Me Back Home at Wire Studios with producers Leo Sacks and Ray Bardani. With their lives in transition, the collective became known as The New Orleans Social Club. Andrews was the featured guest on "Hey Troy, Your Mama's Calling You," a tribute to "Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Calling You" which was a Latin-jazz-soul hit for the Jimmy Castor Bunch on Smash Records in 1966. Andrews also performed on "Where Y'At" as part of The Sixth Ward All-Star Brass Band Revue featuring Charles Neville of The Neville Brothers.




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OHO's "Ocean City Ditty," the CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4
(and, if you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD) OHO is Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak

My latest solo release, '2014' of original, instrumental piano music, can be downloaded digitally at:

Ray Jozwiak: 2014

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your browser:  http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rayjozwiak4)

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Monday, October 17, 2011

That takes a lot of brass. . .

. . . and ALSO in October (11th, 1941), Joe's brother Lester was born in the historic village of Bartonsville in Frederick, Maryland, Bowie grew up in St Louis, Missouri. At the age of five he started studying the trumpet with his father, a professional musician. He played with blues musicians such as Little Milton and Albert King, and rhythm and blues stars such as Solomon Burke, Joe Tex, and Rufus Thomas. In 1965, he became Fontella Bass's musical director and husband. He was a co-founder of Black Artists Group (BAG) in St Louis.

In 1966, he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a studio musician, and met Muhal Richard Abrams and Roscoe Mitchell and became a member of the AACM. In 1968, he founded the Art Ensemble of Chicago with Mitchell, Joseph Jarman, and Malachi Favors. He remained a member of this group for the rest of his life, and was also a member of Jack DeJohnette's New Directions quartet. He lived and worked in Jamaica and Africa, and played and recorded with Fela Kuti. Bowie's onstage appearance, in a white lab coat, with his goatee waxed into two points, was an important part of the Art Ensemble's stage show.

In 1984, he formed Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy, a brass nonet in which Bowie demonstrated jazz's links to other forms of popular music, a decidedly more populist approach than that of the Art Ensemble. With this group he recorded songs made popular by Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Marilyn Manson, and the Spice Girls, along with more "serious" material. His New York Organ Ensemble featured James Carter and Amina Claudine Myers. (from Wikipedia.com)




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