Very interesting! I visited New Orleans in the winter of 1996 and left the 1st day of Mardi Gras which was quite mild comparred to what l guess happens the last few days - which seems to be a major riot of a party.
This is very touching and moving to see & l truely celebrate the fact that they "roll & strool" with the coffin so he can have 1 last dance!
lf u gonna die, u might as well GO OUT IN STYLE!!!
Thank you for posting this. I may be twisted for watching this 10 plus times, but what a celebration of the mans life. It may be a funeral; however it bring great joy to my heart that people have that much love for a person that has passed on.
@onenawlins I would have loved to seen this in person. I can feel the Holy Spirit just listening to this via computer in Alabama. Unique culture it is. And its awesome. Thanks for this. Makes me want to shout everytime I hear it.
@JALLEN4303 No you are not twisted. I posted this 4yrs ago and I still get emotional every time I think about this day. And I grew up going to Jazz Funerals. Thanks for viewing.
This is so moving & touching! As grand of a celebration this is, it brings tears 2 ur eyes!
It's ashamed this culture trains babies as soon as they can that death is horrible. By the time ur 5, ur scared of skeletons & ghosts (comp.s of Halloween), fear death more that other animals seem to, & in some religions, believe once u die, u vanish, disappear, & no longer exist......
Why is this about race? Who really even cares where the instrument was made or that European music is the most complex? Does it even matter? It is beautiful all the same. I, a man of European ancestry, would want my funeral to be like this as the casket is carried to the hearse. Maybe they could play more solemn European music as the casket is lowered into the grave. Maybe some smooth Middle Eastern music during the service. It doesn't matter where it is from, music is music.
THIS GO TO SHOW YOU THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AS 1 IN LIFE AS GOD CALL US TO.JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME THAT HATE DONT MEAN WE ALL HATE AMEN.THIS IS THE WAY TO BE FOR ALL IN JESUS NAME AMEN I LOVE IT ALL.
That's wonderful! Even in death there is life and joy in a funeral!
We, Brazilians, we should at least learn their honor those who have gone with music and not with tears!! Hugs from all Brazilian paras people of New Orleans!
This is amazing, I think that all funerals should be like this! Very sad but beautiful at the same time! Goodbye Kerwin James, Great Tuba player, I am sure the world and New Birth Brass Band will miss you!
I'm intrigued by this. One the music is the culture of New Orleans and they're still rejoicing in his life. Very beautiful and I also agree very sad. God bless a man with talent in life.
I like that in New Orlean's funerals, it always seems like they're not mourning that someone is gone, but actually celebrating the life that person had. I think that's a beautiful way to go.
And people all over the world dare to say that americans have no culture!! (I'm swedish btw) Yet i'm getting teary-eyed from a funeral of someone I really do not know. A funeral is sad, but this is both sad and beautiful.
@mejsjalv everybody has culture, what the "americans" don't have is education and respect for other cultures. By the way, these are black "americans", brought by force and exploited as slaves in what they call "america" from their colonialist point of view. Buy a map and see what America really is, from Alaska to Argentina, where I was born.
@Weimer63 not everybody in the U.S. deserves that label you just slapped on this nation.
that's just narrow minded. oh and those black people in the video where not "brought by force and exploited as slaves" they where most likely born here just as free as everyone else. there has been no slavery in the U.S. for almost 200 years. talk about a disrespect of another nations culture
They don't have a culture....and americans=indians...us citisens are just a mixture of saxons anglo-saxons latinos and what ever the fuck was available at the time
Fortunatly the afroamericans have a culture...An ectraordanery oane
I want people to have a good time at my funeral...why the hell would i want them to wine about the thing !?
European music was a part in the creation of jazz, as was the brass band culture in NOLA. Be proud of the major African influences in jazz, but do not ignore the other ingredients. There are many. This is New Orleans, baby! It is inclusive where cultural creation is concerned.
The Africans took Europeans instruments and made a different kind of music. Europeans music is staid, lifeless. You simply lack this kind of beauty. It's the Africans that are creative and bring beautify in everything. This is purely a Black tradition. Yes Black people are the most creative, and dynanmic people on the planet. That would make sense since we are the Original people. Of course, everybody attempts to steal our art and call it their own.
How can it be just your art when, as you stated, you needed European instruments? As far as European music being lifeless, it would seem Jazz and Zydeco borrowed heavily from European folk to combine with African rhythyms. Also, if this is a "Black" art form, why have I never seen a traditional Jazz funeral in Milwaukee? Seems like there are a lot of black folk there as well? Lets face it, this is not a "black" or "white" thing, but the result of a unique ethnic identity not found outside NO
@curtisscline European folk? Hahahaha you are exaggerating buddy
the only thing european about jazz are the intruments and musical notation ,t hats about it. Everything else is African derived and/or uniquely american
@curtisscline No no, jazz has soul, that's a genuine black thing and it's beautiful. It would even have soul if it was played with sticks on empty coconuts.
However, European music is far from lifeless. Classical European music is the most elegant and complex music ever composed.
I'm as white and European as witlof, but I think both styles of music are brilliant in their own way.
@PatsBooks Its sad that you would tarnish this mans Home Going Celebration with a comment like this. GOD created us all. Black/White/Brown/Yellow... and he created us all to be beautiful. If you believe in your own statement your are actually saying that you know better than GOD himself. WE should love one another... you may not like a person but we are supposed to love them. I pray for you
@feckingbrilliant , You are 100% correct. Seeing how New Orleans is a blend of African Americans and was owned by the FRENCH AND SPANISH, it's only natural that it's our culture...lol
I think we would all want to go out like this...wonder if I can get an advance permit for about - oh, thirty years? - for Chiswick High Road? Don't know how Ealing Council would take it....
@Gtwow1 the fact that the soul of deceased has entered into eternal paradise.
One thing is true of New Orleans people, especially after Katrina...you can either give in to your sorrows and curl into a ball and die, or you can be thankful for what you do have and celebrate live. We choose to live.
This is why, no matter where I may be living, I'm always calling New Orleans home.
@Gtwow1 It may seem strange to those that don't know the ways of New Orleans and the Jazz Funeral. It's their way of "letting the body loose" from its earthly bounds and letting the soul and spirit of the deceased soar to its great reward. This is why you hear two distinctly different types of music at a jazz funeral. It starts with the slow, mournful music (as you hear on the video) mourning the passing of the deceased. Later, the music become lively and raucous, as folks celebrate...
This is so amazing - you learn something new everyday and these service are so beautiful and celebratory of life. I hope people love me this much when I pass away to play music and dance in my memory <3
Eternal rest grant unto Mr. James and may the Perpetual Light shine upon him. May his Soul and all the Souls of the faithful departed rest in Peace. That was a beautiful funeral procession. The music showed the Love.
Yeah, they've got it right for sure. I lived in NO in 1980 and when Longhair passed, there must've been and easy 5,000 folks in the streets on that cold and dreary day. It was like the sky was cryin' but us on the ground were celebrating a cornerstone of New Orleans music.
Yeah, they've got it right for sure. I was lived in NO in 1980 and when Longhair passed, there must've been and easy 5,000 folks in the streets on that cold and dreary day. It was like the sky was cryin' but us on the ground were celebrating a cornerstone of New Orleans music.
Well... we here in Europe don't really celebrate people's life when they pass away, which is a shame, when I see this video. I saw it by co-incidence and I have to say: A GREAT WAY of honouring someone's life. Thanks a lot for sharing this. With best regards from Germany... Stefan
I came across this video after watching the Second Line for Magnolia Shorty. I tell ya I have a phobia of (open) caskets and absolutely despise going to anyone's funeral but MY GOD what a way to say goodbye!! The music, the "Last Dance" was simply BEAUTIFUL!! I had no idea who this man was but he must've been great! And just look at the emotion, people laughing, crying , screaming out all at the same time!!! Gone from the body but not the heart...AMEN!!! Rest in Beats my Brotha
I've loved this type of "homegoing" celebration ever since I first read about them as a kid. What a deep cultural expression from the ones who loved you. And I just love New Orleans and its people.
Love the defiance in the traditional music. Lived Katrina and love New Orleans forever, And yes, I noticed the Fema trailers in the background, Talk about a moment in time,
You can be proud of your tradition and be sure that it will remain exclusively your tradition forever.E.g. in Europe, they cannot introduce jazz funeral because of two reasons: People are afraid that their enemies will attend second line to celebrate their death, not afterlife which they deny, but really death. And If they do not are afraid of it, it is however a risk that this may happen anyway. Tell me, which of these reasons is more sorrow?
Now THIS is Soul...brothers lookin' fine in their beautiful suits! Umbrellas to keep out the heat! Dancing and laughing and crying and wailin' to send him up with Style!
@4freespeech feel u on that, its sad how they did the people of N.O., but thats the white man for you......do they hate our people in N.O. so much because of the ties to magic?? Im just asking.
Ile asfaltu :O
AveSzafran 1 day ago
I.LOVE.MY.CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rollinhard7 1 day ago
Very interesting! I visited New Orleans in the winter of 1996 and left the 1st day of Mardi Gras which was quite mild comparred to what l guess happens the last few days - which seems to be a major riot of a party.
This is very touching and moving to see & l truely celebrate the fact that they "roll & strool" with the coffin so he can have 1 last dance!
lf u gonna die, u might as well GO OUT IN STYLE!!!
Sogwa 6 days ago
This is the most bad ass video I think I have ever seen anywhere. Music heals the soul.
Urbanz1975 1 week ago
Sometimes it is with great shame and sadness that I realize I am a Baptist white guy from Mississippi.
ericjarviscpa22 1 week ago
That was awesome and a lot of Love was there in his Home going thanks for sharing. I still feel the Love.
djcov1 2 weeks ago
What a way to go out in style?
MrBennetzen 2 weeks ago
Brings tears to my eyes. What a wonderful culture!
bmartinmusics 2 weeks ago
this is awsome but i feel bad
robotonsteroids 3 weeks ago 2
@robotonsteroids that is the perfect way to say it.
wiciousbeasts 6 days ago
this is pure philosophy people...
tomirmigi 1 month ago
you can hear the agony in the music
popstoastymonkey 1 month ago
Get's me every time. :'(
EricShookRools 1 month ago
wow this is amazing...thats how to celebrate life right there.....
kamikazeflute 1 month ago
Thank you for posting this. I may be twisted for watching this 10 plus times, but what a celebration of the mans life. It may be a funeral; however it bring great joy to my heart that people have that much love for a person that has passed on.
JALLEN4303 1 month ago 11
@JALLEN4303 Just trying to spread New Orleans unique culture. Thanks for viewing and check out my website.
onenawlins 1 month ago
@onenawlins I would have loved to seen this in person. I can feel the Holy Spirit just listening to this via computer in Alabama. Unique culture it is. And its awesome. Thanks for this. Makes me want to shout everytime I hear it.
ftlaudpd 4 weeks ago
@JALLEN4303 No you are not twisted. I posted this 4yrs ago and I still get emotional every time I think about this day. And I grew up going to Jazz Funerals. Thanks for viewing.
onenawlins 2 weeks ago
@onenawlins
This is so moving & touching! As grand of a celebration this is, it brings tears 2 ur eyes!
It's ashamed this culture trains babies as soon as they can that death is horrible. By the time ur 5, ur scared of skeletons & ghosts (comp.s of Halloween), fear death more that other animals seem to, & in some religions, believe once u die, u vanish, disappear, & no longer exist......
Sogwa 6 days ago
@onenawlins (last part)
.........Which is STUPID being that energy can't be created nor destroyed & WE r all ENERGY BEINGS!!
Perhaps if people approached death like u guys do, it wouldn't be so horrible, scary, & sad!!
Sogwa 6 days ago
13TIGA13, the name of the song is "Just A Closer Walk With Thee."
CoolBlueGix 1 month ago
Such love and respect... and FUN. Amazing.
TropicalSunriseTans 1 month ago
what the name of this theme? i cannot find it anywhere.
13TIQA13 1 month ago
@13TIQA13, the song's called a closer walk with thee
popstoastymonkey 1 month ago
Amazing! Thank you for sharing this! I know where I'm going...and that's the way to celebrate someone's life!
pattimoose1 1 month ago
@pattimoose1 Your welcome.
onenawlins 1 month ago
who's funeral is it? Yours..CIA guy dies
airsoftchina 1 month ago
Not really a fan of Jazz, nor of Blues, but this is beautiful.
mbe102 2 months ago
love it!!! That's the way we need to go!
jeanereen18 2 months ago
THAT... is how you go out in style!
galipooh 2 months ago 2
Amazing!
raskollnikov 2 months ago
I cried. And I don't even know him. Freakin' power of music!
foxfire180 2 months ago 3
Maravilhoso.
af390 3 months ago
Amazing way to celebrate someone's life
jscarbo4 3 months ago
this is amazing
IAmTheNietzsche 3 months ago
Boy, I sure want to go out like this!
mh605 3 months ago
I love this music and have all the respect for all.
Can someone tell me the name of the tune played at the funeral?
Thanks
Roman
radarek1944 3 months ago
@radarek1944 It's called Just A Closer Walk With Thee, a Christian hymn.
branwyn1914 3 months ago
@branwyn1914 I greatly appreciate it. Roman
radarek1944 3 months ago
@radarek1944 Closer walk with thee
TheGarlandofgrace 2 months ago
Why is this about race? Who really even cares where the instrument was made or that European music is the most complex? Does it even matter? It is beautiful all the same. I, a man of European ancestry, would want my funeral to be like this as the casket is carried to the hearse. Maybe they could play more solemn European music as the casket is lowered into the grave. Maybe some smooth Middle Eastern music during the service. It doesn't matter where it is from, music is music.
DMSComedy 3 months ago
what church is this
jdeezy2008 3 months ago
If this doesn't move you, you have no heart and certainly no soul.
ionnus1000 3 months ago
That's what I call a great funeral! I'd like to have my funeral like this too.That's how we should honour the people who've died.
heartnzoul 3 months ago 2
It gave me a really god feeing as a UK Funeral
celebrant sometimes I am asked to do thi style and its really moving
zinnzinnmum 4 months ago 2
a true homecoming celebration!
cstripcathy 4 months ago 3
like in the old times...it seems we are watching a funeral in 40's, 50's...
katiamagalhaes1 4 months ago
Thats the way to get out
ideoteqa 4 months ago
THIS GO TO SHOW YOU THAT WE CAN COME TOGETHER AS 1 IN LIFE AS GOD CALL US TO.JUST BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME THAT HATE DONT MEAN WE ALL HATE AMEN.THIS IS THE WAY TO BE FOR ALL IN JESUS NAME AMEN I LOVE IT ALL.
DRUMMERAL100 4 months ago
If your gonna go! Go in style. that New Orleans!!
Mimsy2770 4 months ago 2
@Mimsy2770 Ain't no better way to get sent off, but this way!
brownhornet71 4 months ago
That's wonderful! Even in death there is life and joy in a funeral!
We, Brazilians, we should at least learn their honor those who have gone with music and not with tears!! Hugs from all Brazilian paras people of New Orleans!
Alexandre Silva - São Paulo / Brazil
Alexandreperry 5 months ago
This is amazing, I think that all funerals should be like this! Very sad but beautiful at the same time! Goodbye Kerwin James, Great Tuba player, I am sure the world and New Birth Brass Band will miss you!
Aidanisawsesome 5 months ago
word. sir.
elkhartmartin 5 months ago
This is how I want to go!!!! BREATHTAKING!
Mavchamp 5 months ago 2
proud to be a musican in New Orleans
slickwilly95 5 months ago 3
Thanks for posting this. This is truly the way a life should be celebrated.
mrflaulis100 5 months ago
I love this...no one does a funeral like New Orleans does it
cocanikki 5 months ago 17
I'm intrigued by this. One the music is the culture of New Orleans and they're still rejoicing in his life. Very beautiful and I also agree very sad. God bless a man with talent in life.
penguino9 6 months ago
Where's James Bond?
BRUTUALTRUTH 6 months ago
WATS THE NAME OF THE SONG THEY PLAYING ???
37wester 6 months ago
@37wester A Closer Walk With Thee
ls1z28chris 6 months ago
@37wester just a closer walk with thee
chuckles8383 6 months ago
one word...... Brilliant
ashc1153 6 months ago
do you know whitch tune they're playing? is it a closer walk with thee?
Delbonete 6 months ago
@Delbonete yes
l0vey0u1 6 months ago
@Delbonete It is! I can confirm that!
rickydeeman 6 months ago
@Delbonete The full name is Just a Closer Walk With Thee.
scottca075 6 months ago
What a big emotion listening this music and watching this moovie!
Great free energy, powerful life, jazz for ever!
I'm watching so meny times!
Big hug to New Orleans Spirit!
Francesco Bifano
Italy
misterzapon 6 months ago 3
Sends chills down my spine!!!! Totally heart-warming!!!
nounnoun 6 months ago
I like that in New Orlean's funerals, it always seems like they're not mourning that someone is gone, but actually celebrating the life that person had. I think that's a beautiful way to go.
AnnMegFair 7 months ago 9
Este es mi ultimo deseo,en el pais que me encuentre.-
This is also my last wish,neverless which country Im am.-
max1941 7 months ago
Just fabulous......what a way to go out!
MrLittleoldlady 7 months ago
The most beautiful send off I've ever seen. Please do this for me when I die!
ChasePhoenix 7 months ago 2
HASTA TE DAN GANAS DE MORIR!!! Goodbye Mr. James.
Manoloc1991 7 months ago
Muito legal.....
Carlos Smith/Rio de Janeiro/Brasil.
carlosbosta 7 months ago
that's how a true champion goes home to to meet his father. his people loved that man..
cloudmaru 7 months ago
so beautiful, RIP
13420erica 7 months ago
God rest Mr. James's soul and comfort his family and friends.
This was beautiful to watch, and makes me want to have a funeral like this. I like the "one last dance" to music tradition. CHEERS!!!!
colanderhead1971 7 months ago
Wonderful, makes to want to die like that too.
Kohzbae 7 months ago
Beautiful! What a wonderful way to say good bye and comfort people.
ogamiitto42 7 months ago in playlist salsa, berimbau, jazz funeral, watermelon man
Opa!!!!!!!!!! Me diz uma coisa, por favor!!!!!!!
Isso é um funeral de verdade?
sandrotbne 7 months ago
This is closer walk with thee isnt it...
preludepatriots 8 months ago
This is beautiful. It's almost as if death is defeated by the shear celebration of a life.
VanKlaunch 8 months ago 2
Dis is how I want a funeral r.I.p kerwin
DwaneMafia 8 months ago
俺もこんな風に送られたい
audiencecreator 8 months ago
And people all over the world dare to say that americans have no culture!! (I'm swedish btw) Yet i'm getting teary-eyed from a funeral of someone I really do not know. A funeral is sad, but this is both sad and beautiful.
mejsjalv 8 months ago 50
@mejsjalv everybody has culture, what the "americans" don't have is education and respect for other cultures. By the way, these are black "americans", brought by force and exploited as slaves in what they call "america" from their colonialist point of view. Buy a map and see what America really is, from Alaska to Argentina, where I was born.
Weimer63 8 months ago
@Weimer63 not everybody in the U.S. deserves that label you just slapped on this nation.
that's just narrow minded. oh and those black people in the video where not "brought by force and exploited as slaves" they where most likely born here just as free as everyone else. there has been no slavery in the U.S. for almost 200 years. talk about a disrespect of another nations culture
BurningArmyman 8 months ago 3
@mejsjalv I completely agree with you, man
Tiavioli 8 months ago
@mejsjalv
Please
They don't have a culture....and americans=indians...us citisens are just a mixture of saxons anglo-saxons latinos and what ever the fuck was available at the time
Fortunatly the afroamericans have a culture...An ectraordanery oane
I want people to have a good time at my funeral...why the hell would i want them to wine about the thing !?
skyZZofreniKdesignS 6 months ago 2
@skyZZofreniKdesignS
European music was a part in the creation of jazz, as was the brass band culture in NOLA. Be proud of the major African influences in jazz, but do not ignore the other ingredients. There are many. This is New Orleans, baby! It is inclusive where cultural creation is concerned.
doctorj2u2 6 months ago
@doctorj2u2
The Africans took Europeans instruments and made a different kind of music. Europeans music is staid, lifeless. You simply lack this kind of beauty. It's the Africans that are creative and bring beautify in everything. This is purely a Black tradition. Yes Black people are the most creative, and dynanmic people on the planet. That would make sense since we are the Original people. Of course, everybody attempts to steal our art and call it their own.
PatsBooks 5 months ago
@PatsBooks Just an incredible "celebration of life" Outstanding. Then why turn it into a race 'rant'.
Let people enjoy. Be cool. Goes better that way :)
beatsbooze 4 months ago
How can it be just your art when, as you stated, you needed European instruments? As far as European music being lifeless, it would seem Jazz and Zydeco borrowed heavily from European folk to combine with African rhythyms. Also, if this is a "Black" art form, why have I never seen a traditional Jazz funeral in Milwaukee? Seems like there are a lot of black folk there as well? Lets face it, this is not a "black" or "white" thing, but the result of a unique ethnic identity not found outside NO
curtisscline 4 months ago
@curtisscline Second that.
bellgardens53 4 months ago
@curtisscline European folk? Hahahaha you are exaggerating buddy
the only thing european about jazz are the intruments and musical notation ,t hats about it. Everything else is African derived and/or uniquely american
BlacknesUnforgivable 4 months ago
@curtisscline However, you are right about one thing. This is traditionally a N.O thing BUT it started with the blacks in N.O.
BlacknesUnforgivable 4 months ago
@curtisscline No no, jazz has soul, that's a genuine black thing and it's beautiful. It would even have soul if it was played with sticks on empty coconuts.
However, European music is far from lifeless. Classical European music is the most elegant and complex music ever composed.
I'm as white and European as witlof, but I think both styles of music are brilliant in their own way.
drsjandoedel 4 months ago
@PatsBooks Its sad that you would tarnish this mans Home Going Celebration with a comment like this. GOD created us all. Black/White/Brown/Yellow... and he created us all to be beautiful. If you believe in your own statement your are actually saying that you know better than GOD himself. WE should love one another... you may not like a person but we are supposed to love them. I pray for you
jarion04 4 months ago
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@mejsjalv White americans have no culture
BlacknesUnforgivable 4 months ago
@mejsjalv It's not really american culture, it comes from tradition practiced mainly in Africa, France and Spain.
but yeah amazing to see
feckingbrilliant 2 months ago
@feckingbrilliant , You are 100% correct. Seeing how New Orleans is a blend of African Americans and was owned by the FRENCH AND SPANISH, it's only natural that it's our culture...lol
rollinhard7 1 day ago
It's about celebrating someone's life, not their death. Absolutely wonderful!
jbtmykids1 8 months ago
That was Frank Lucas? It looks like someone important.
camaroz28silver 8 months ago
Man,that one guy's making that trumpet wail!
rebeccaswifeypoo 8 months ago
I love New Orleans!!
PajamaRojo 8 months ago
An original way to have a funeral - I might try to get this done for myself too in London (not sure if they would allow it)! Brilliant!
vregify 8 months ago
its a wonderful tradition in the south-states
Samariter68 8 months ago
I think we would all want to go out like this...wonder if I can get an advance permit for about - oh, thirty years? - for Chiswick High Road? Don't know how Ealing Council would take it....
Ninevah77 8 months ago 2
@Gtwow1 the fact that the soul of deceased has entered into eternal paradise.
One thing is true of New Orleans people, especially after Katrina...you can either give in to your sorrows and curl into a ball and die, or you can be thankful for what you do have and celebrate live. We choose to live.
This is why, no matter where I may be living, I'm always calling New Orleans home.
RobdaVegasMailman 8 months ago 3
@Gtwow1 It may seem strange to those that don't know the ways of New Orleans and the Jazz Funeral. It's their way of "letting the body loose" from its earthly bounds and letting the soul and spirit of the deceased soar to its great reward. This is why you hear two distinctly different types of music at a jazz funeral. It starts with the slow, mournful music (as you hear on the video) mourning the passing of the deceased. Later, the music become lively and raucous, as folks celebrate...
RobdaVegasMailman 8 months ago 2
@Gtwow1 you need help sir
goonie50 8 months ago
@Gtwow1 stfu asshole
goonie50 8 months ago
I cry every time I watch this and I didn't even know the man.
douchechillum 8 months ago
@Gtwow1 That's their way of showing respect... Idiot.
MsJulzee 8 months ago
in germany impossible
Samariter68 9 months ago
This is incredible. What an awesome funeral. I want mine to be like this...when it's my turn. Thank you for sharing this.
GrahamAtterbury 9 months ago
This is so amazing - you learn something new everyday and these service are so beautiful and celebratory of life. I hope people love me this much when I pass away to play music and dance in my memory <3
weegee06 9 months ago
Eternal rest grant unto Mr. James and may the Perpetual Light shine upon him. May his Soul and all the Souls of the faithful departed rest in Peace. That was a beautiful funeral procession. The music showed the Love.
ghosty426 9 months ago
It's not a funeral, it's a HOMECOMING!
GEAUXHARDORGEAUXHOME 9 months ago
This is incredible!!
yungdrumma808 9 months ago
this the shit!!!!!!!!!
bottomsbaby 9 months ago
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Yeah, they've got it right for sure. I lived in NO in 1980 and when Longhair passed, there must've been and easy 5,000 folks in the streets on that cold and dreary day. It was like the sky was cryin' but us on the ground were celebrating a cornerstone of New Orleans music.
monkstermanjah 9 months ago
Yeah, they've got it right for sure. I was lived in NO in 1980 and when Longhair passed, there must've been and easy 5,000 folks in the streets on that cold and dreary day. It was like the sky was cryin' but us on the ground were celebrating a cornerstone of New Orleans music.
monkstermanjah 9 months ago
Amazing, part of my country I never knew a thing about.
willquietwalker 9 months ago
They sent him home right!
wdupar20 9 months ago
Wow! wee, what a send off! lol
tcslawder 9 months ago
I WANT MY FUNERAL TO BE LIKE THIS
and you cant spell Funeral without fun :D
pura1998 9 months ago 64
@pura1998 lol dude i just put that comment on facebook and got 32 likes!! put that on your statues.
wes3tomcat 8 months ago
@pura1998 I agree ^^
crujesono 3 months ago
What a beautiful funeral!
s11033 9 months ago
Incredible.
Matismo 9 months ago
Well... we here in Europe don't really celebrate people's life when they pass away, which is a shame, when I see this video. I saw it by co-incidence and I have to say: A GREAT WAY of honouring someone's life. Thanks a lot for sharing this. With best regards from Germany... Stefan
Radio4Sound 9 months ago
@Radio4Sound Hey Stefan,
Du hasst recht!!! wann eine sterbt muss mann Sie ehren mit Musik!! Dixieland :) Just A Closer Walk With Tea, for life :D..
Grüsse aus Holland
MrDonderpoes 9 months ago
I came across this video after watching the Second Line for Magnolia Shorty. I tell ya I have a phobia of (open) caskets and absolutely despise going to anyone's funeral but MY GOD what a way to say goodbye!! The music, the "Last Dance" was simply BEAUTIFUL!! I had no idea who this man was but he must've been great! And just look at the emotion, people laughing, crying , screaming out all at the same time!!! Gone from the body but not the heart...AMEN!!! Rest in Beats my Brotha
LuckiiCharmz85 10 months ago
Beautiful - Wish I could go this way!
Thank you so much for sharing this.
Terribly moving, sad & uplifting.
gggiraffe 10 months ago
the epitome of jazz , good old new orleans improvisation.
manicmeezer 10 months ago
People who love life leave it that way.
dirtypeacelover 10 months ago
I have decided that this will be what my funeral will be like.
indians032691 10 months ago
Beautiful Greetings from Lafayette friends. :)
Academic1Researcher 10 months ago
What a fantastic way to go home,eh?? When its my time,i would want this!
Rude4ngel 10 months ago
Awwww, that was beautiful, what a wonderful celebration
kytrader007 10 months ago
who is this song by?
TheLamy89 10 months ago
@TheLamy89 "Nearer, My God, to Thee
Alphonse132 10 months ago
@Alphonse132 it's called just a closer walk with thee
ethansimon94 10 months ago
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo! The way a good man should go home.
TexasFight311 10 months ago
We should all be so lucky to go out like this. Bravo.
veritastestimonium 10 months ago
That was awesome , as a ministers son I always wondered why our going home had to be so solemn and somber.
TheBenjamincharles 10 months ago
very touching and beautiful ...
redcrosslady1959 10 months ago
The rocking of the casket is such a sweet gesture. I love that.
athenalong 11 months ago
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This is the most loving funeral. These guys really know each other and love each other dearly. And I love them too.
loblue 11 months ago
This is the most loving funeral I have ever witnessed. These guys really know each other and love each other dearly. And I love them too.
loblue 11 months ago
I've loved this type of "homegoing" celebration ever since I first read about them as a kid. What a deep cultural expression from the ones who loved you. And I just love New Orleans and its people.
amd77j 11 months ago
This moves me to tears ever time I see it.
rhumbaphone 11 months ago
***chills***
earart 11 months ago
dude at least flipped over 20 times when they kept tossing his dead ass in the air >.<
Let hym sleep please.
DEADDUCKGAMES 11 months ago
Kerwin James was the older brother of Phil and Keith Frazier from Rebirth Brass Band
jonrob25 11 months ago
Kerwin James was the older brother of Phil and Keith Frazier from Rebirth Brass Band
jonrob25 11 months ago
what a send off!
SharonDuke1 1 year ago
@3:26 "HEY BUDDY- MOVE THE SOUSAPHONE!" XD man they don't do it up like this anywhere else.... seriously, this would make any funeral better...
Nitrocide595 1 year ago
Love the defiance in the traditional music. Lived Katrina and love New Orleans forever, And yes, I noticed the Fema trailers in the background, Talk about a moment in time,
doctorj2u2 1 year ago
And they also give Kermit his Last Dance, before he rides a way.
ASpurgeon3 1 year ago
I Love to watch NOLA's Funerals but sometimes I think, Lawd the way they be rocking those caskets that poor body has Shaken Syndrome
I still Love to watch them
dimples40160 1 year ago
I'm requesting something like this for my funeral. This is what a funeral should be.
RastaSarah220 1 year ago
You can be proud of your tradition and be sure that it will remain exclusively your tradition forever.E.g. in Europe, they cannot introduce jazz funeral because of two reasons: People are afraid that their enemies will attend second line to celebrate their death, not afterlife which they deny, but really death. And If they do not are afraid of it, it is however a risk that this may happen anyway. Tell me, which of these reasons is more sorrow?
bialasova 1 year ago
I'm sorry to say but at the beginning it surprise me, I thought somebody farted. ; 0 Hihahi. : )
MyYummycookie 1 year ago
I love my creole roots mike carter
trill454 1 year ago
Хочу такие похороны! С завтрашнего дня начинаю копить деньги на хороший похоронный диксиленд!!!
superulitka11 1 year ago
Beautiful...
barrymore 1 year ago
EPIC...
bargainmom 1 year ago
Now THIS is Soul...brothers lookin' fine in their beautiful suits! Umbrellas to keep out the heat! Dancing and laughing and crying and wailin' to send him up with Style!
bargainmom 1 year ago
This is African-American culture and SOUL, and New Orleans would not be
New Orleans without it! Every time N.O. loses black folk chased out of their
homes by speculators after Katrina and FEMA the city LOSES more of its
heritage and culture.
STOP BULLDOZING LOW INCOME HOUSING FOR CONDOS!
(Yes, I'm talkin about St. Bernard Development!)
4freespeech 1 year ago
@4freespeech feel u on that, its sad how they did the people of N.O., but thats the white man for you......do they hate our people in N.O. so much because of the ties to magic?? Im just asking.
bottomsbaby 9 months ago
BEST FUNERAL IVE EVER SEEN THATS THE WAY YOU GO HOME ALL THAT LOVE SURROUNDED BY YOU THEY WHER DANCING WITH THE CASKET C'MON MAN THAT WAS LOVELY
est1985buckcity 1 year ago
Spot the white man..
joelski11NCFC 1 year ago
Did you hear that hot lead trumpet player? Powerful indeed! John-Hans Melcher
johnnyzing 1 year ago 2
Lord! That's the way I wanna go out! A brass band playing Just a Closer WAlk, makng the people feel good. Great video. Thanks.
7t8h4z 1 year ago 25
@7t8h4z Amen!!!
001squeeze 9 months ago
Thirteen people dont know shit aout shit
LegionaireXII 1 year ago 2