Best Band to Come Out of New Orleans

+ infinity on Meters.

The Meters

Zebra

Down

BTE (although Baton Rouge could probably claim them, too)

The Zoofs

If we are going with individuals, Allen Toussaint gets my vote.

fools me

From the Kickstarter page

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THE BIG BEAT: The Story Of Fats Domino & His Band

....On the day in 1948 the unlikely paths of Antoine "Fats" Domino and Dave Bartholomew collided at a small Lower Ninth Ward New Orleans night club neither men would have suspected that their collaboration would result in one of the longest ( 65 years and running) and most successful in American Music history. A collaboration that, by 1962, would sell over 60 million records.

THE BIG BEAT: THE STORY OF FATS DOMINO AND HIS BAND is also the story of how Fats and Dave's music BECAME Rock N' Roll and how it effectively broke down the color barriers that paved the way for racial integration through music. We will use recent interviews with Dave, Fats and with surviving band members and rare previously unseen full length vintage performances of the Fats Domino Band ( with Dave Bartholomew on Trumpet) performing their early hits to illustrate the story of these two men and the other musicians who made their band among the greatest in Rock N' roll history...

Several years ago, while doing preliminary research for a possible Fats Domino documentary, I discovered in ( of all places!) the French National Archive, a 45 minute live concert film , shot in 1962, of the original Fats Domino band...the same band that recorded with Fats from 1949 to 1962 as well as appearing , with Dave Bartholomew as band leader and director, on over 200 nationally charted singles and 21 gold records - all of which recorded in Cosimo Matasa’s tiny J&M studio on Rampart Street in the city of New Orleans

To find a 45 minute concert of any African American Rock N' Roll band filmed in 1962 is almost completely unheard of. Generally the early pioneers of Rock, both black and white, were only allowed short appearances on TV Dance Party or Variety shows or appeared lip syncing one of their current hits in a Hollywood teen movie. It is just unheard of that a 45 minute 1962 live concert should exist..and one featuring with one of the most important and influential Rock N’ Roll bands of all times.

So, with this amazingly exciting footage as the corner stone, we will tell their story. The film will be a performance/documentary as we intend to show the performances in their entirety..no cutting for narrative..just the band performing as it was on that Summer day in 1962. This will be the true story of the early years of Fats Domino; a story that would not exist without Fats' longtime collaboration with New Orleans Trumpeter, song writer, arranger and band leader Dave Bartholomew; a story that shows the transition of Rhythm & Blues to Rock N' Roll at the hands of these two pioneers.

Their story is rooted in the culture, traditions and rhythms of their native New Orleans, their home town from the beginning of their lives til this very day. The film will primarily focus on Fats and Dave but will also pay tribute to legendary New Orleans musicians LEE ALLEN, HERB HARDESTY, CORNELIUS "TENOO" COLEMAN, and WALTER "PAPOOSE" NELSON who were long time members of the Dave Bartholomew and Fats Domino bands and who played on 100's of the greatest R&B and Rock N' Roll records to come out of New Orleans.

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and these HOT5+1 from Louisiana

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Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five

The Music of the Hot Five and the Hot Seven is considered by most critics to be among the finest recordings in Jazz history. On November 12th, 1925 Louis Armstrong made his first records that bore his name as bandleader. The songs on the Okeh 78 rpm record were "My Heart", and Cornet Chop Suey. The band was made up mostly of musicians from King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. The first version of the band featured Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny St. Cyr on banjo and Louis's wife, Lil Hardin-Armstrong on piano. These were informal settings that all concerned remember as a good time. Louis picked all the musicians that he wanted to play on the sessions and the record company generally left them alone to do what they wanted. The song "Heebie Jeebies" is generally the first recorded example of scat singing, although there are several examples on records that predate this recording. On the December of 1927 sides Lonnie Johnson joins the band for three tracks, "I'm Not Rough", "Hotter Than That", and "Savoy Blues". Earl Hines plays piano on all of the 1928 sessions, and the beautiful celeste parts on "Basin Street Blues".

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Sorry - Was just using short hand, where saying I heard SRV, actually meant Double Trouble as well. Or like saying Tom Petty suxxs, doesn't necessarily refer to him as a person, but rather tired-of-listening to the band as well.

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BTE

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(although Baton Rouge could probably claim them, too)

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No thanks

Personally I prefer Fats over Armstrong to be Louisiana's #1 music legend, although both deserve the high praise - it's a compliment that they "aren't" bands in the traditional sense.

I mean, Count Basie and Duke Ellington would have been "more" band-like than Fats and Louis - they were larger than life.

Flowtribe. It just really doesn't get any better than a washboard solo.

I say Zebra because I know Randy and I grew up with them as a kid...



...but the real answer, and IMO, it ain't even close, is the New Orleans Radiators.


Fish Head Music...LET'S RADIATE!!!

Dr. John...though his best stuff had the meters as his band.