Preservation Hall Jazz Band w/ Tom Waits - "Tootie Ma Is A Big Fine Thing" - 78RPM Record

PRESERVATION HALL RECORDINGS TO RELEASE LIMITED EDITION RECORDING
FEATURING TOM WAITS AND THE PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
ON 78RPM VINYL FORMAT

On November 19th, 2010, Preservation Hall Recordings will release 504 LIMITED EDITION, hand numbered, 78rpm format vinyl records featuring two tracks by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with very special guest Tom Waits. The proceeds from the sales of this very special project will benefit the Preservation Hall Junior Jazz & Heritage Brass Band, the cornerstone of the Preservation Hall music outreach program in partnership with The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation.

"In New Orleans, our musical traditions are passed down from one generation to the next. I was very fortunate to grow up at the feet of so many masterful musicians. It's one of Preservation Hall's missions to ensure the future of our musical heritage. Our music outreach program guarantees our musical legacy will live on through another generation." says Creative Director of Preservation Hall and son of the Hall's founders, Ben Jaffe.

Mr. Waits traveled to New Orleans to record two songs with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the critically-acclaimed project PRESERVATION: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and the Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program, "Tootie Ma Was A Big Fine Thing" and "Corrine Died On The Battlefield". Originally recorded by Danny Barker in 1947, these two selections are the earliest known recorded examples of Mardi Gras Indian chants.

Inspired by the original recordings, the two recently recorded tracks are being released in a beautifully designed, limited-edition 78 rpm format vinyl record, each signed and numbered by Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe. The first one hundred records will be accompanied by a custom designed Preservation Hall 78rpm record player(also plays 33 1/3 & 45 rpm records, see specs beow) as part of a Deluxe Donation package. The remaining four hundred and four will be available as a standalone record for the Basic Donation package.

Both packages will be available for IN-PERSON PURCHASE at Preservation Hall in New Orleans on November 19, 2010 from 10am-5pm Central Standard Time, and for ONLINE PURCHASE at http://www.preservationhall.com at 12:01am CST, November 20, 2010.

Packages will be limited to one per person.

-Deluxe Donation Tier: $200 -- INCLUDES: Limited Edition 78rpm record
AND the limited edition, custom-made Preservation Hall 78 record player(#1-100)

-Basic Donation Tier: $50 -- INCLUDES: Limited Edition 78rpm record only (#101-504)

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• tom waits
• preservation hall
• jazz band
• new orleans
• tootie ma
• preservation benefit
• 78
• vinyl

[preservationhall]

@jpetersgoyanks The tracks are available on CD and for download. They were originally released on the Deluxe version of the February 2010 release "Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall and The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program"

[seanberney]

amazing!!! when/where is it available?

[preservationhall]

@seanberney Info is above!

[thedirtyduo156]

I'm not much of a dancer, but my spirit refused to be modest and busted out dancing upon hearing this groove laden tune. GROOOOOOOVYYYYYY!!!!

[Liberaljamoke]

Waits=Genius.

Mard Gras= Happiness.

Toootie Ma = ?

If you ain't moving to this, Jack, you dead.

[TheThrune]

Wonderful - Great tune to listen to on Fat Tuesday.  @TheThrune

[desinger1x]

anyone knows if there is a ''studio version'' of this on youtube. i love it.

[Spacemonkey3000BC]

When I listen to this, I can see Tom just pimp strutin' away.

[pdvmorris1]

.....wow...loved it...great post! And I wanna get one of the turntable suitcases now....

[skitrees]

@quixotalable - I didn't name the hall...nor did I found the hall based on preserving a very specific niche of music. (But someone did - his name was E. Lorenz Borenstein. In fact, he, along with Ken Mills, William Russell, Dick Allen, and Allan & Sandra Jaffe founded an organization called the "New Orleans Society for the Preservation of Traditional Jazz") This history is pretty cool and shows the importance of the hall - I highly recommend researching it. Pretty cool stuff! Cheers!

[quixotalable]

@skitrees

Riiight...and what do preservation and jazz have in common? Except for being complete opposites, little to nothing...

[hassledguy]

Always loved this tune. I am not sure but I think you will hear Indian Chants in some of Jelly Roll Morton's stuff which predates this. Danny Barker was such a character. This tune is more recently covered by another of his students and torchbearers, Herlin Riley the modern drum master perhaps better known for playing with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and Wynton Marsalis. I think you can find it here somewhere.

[trainable2000]

That song makes me want to don in a 3-piece suit and drag myself, drunk and convulsing, over a wood floor like a snake with a rusty nail hammered in it's jaw.

[LaGrandeBeaute]

@sopaman1234

I agree! I would like to get Jim James' two songs on a 78.