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New Orleans, Street Jazz & Dirty Rap.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hip-hop/Rap.
- Jazz.
- United States and Canada.
- African Americans.
- Americans.
- New Orleans, LA.
- Local Subjects:
- Hip-hop/Rap.
- Jazz.
- United States and Canada.
- African Americans.
- Americans.
- New Orleans, LA.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (52 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- In this fascinating film produced by Universal Music France in 2013, La Nouvelle Orléans, Street Jazz & Dirty Rap offers a personal, on-the-ground journey through the jazz, funk and rap music capital of New Orleans. The trip includes stopovers at such clubs as House of Blues and Tipitina’s as well as hot spots on the hip-hop scene filled with wild bounce-music dancers and rousing DJ beats at such small venues as Siberia Club, Fusions and Generations Hall. Neighborhood street scenes include locals and tourists all gathering in a sense of community rooted in the culture. The main tour guide is the charismatic Trombone Shorty who rose to international stardom from his youthful days of playing in the street starting at age 4 and joining in with brass bands. Everyone knows him as he cruises through the streets and points out the landscapes away from the popular Bourbon Street tourist strip. Another key guide is activist entrepreneur Rusty Lazer who not only DJs in wild houses of rap, but also manages (rappers Nicky Da B, Big Freedia) and has created such music-fueled artist organizations as New Orleans Airlift and Music Box Village. Other jazz voices in the mix are Ivan Neville of the Neville Brothers, Kermit Ruffins from the Rebirth Brass Band, and horn players Gregory Davis and Kevin Harris from the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. From street walks in down-home neighborhoods to driving in cars to important locations (including the destroyed houses from Hurricane Katrina), the film provides an organic view of the city’s quarters where there’s “always music around.” Dan Ouellette
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 15, 2024).
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