Preservation Hall Hot 4: St. James Infirmary(King Britt Remix)

Animated Music Video for Preservation Hall Hot 4's "St. James Infirmary(King Britt Remix)"

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ABOUT THE CARTOON:
Preservation Hall Recordings is proud to present a brand-new, locally produced animated music video! Directed by Lafayette-based visual artist James Tancill, the music video for the Preservation Hall / King Britt remix of St. James Infirmary by the Preservation Hall Hot 4 is an animated romp in the style of Max Fleischer (Betty Boop, etc.) that plays out like a storybook caper set against a backdrop of beloved New Orleans characters and institutions both old and new. Audiences familiar with the iconography of New Orleans music and culture will thrill as characters and beloved landmarks from the past and present find new life in an animated tableau.

Set to music by The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (as led by dearly departed bandleader John Brunious, Jr. and remixed by noted Philadelphia DJ and producer King Britt (Digable Planets, E-Culture) and Preservation Hall Creative Director Ben Jaffe) the video for St. James Infirmary follows the antics of Ronnie Numbers and Mr. The Turk of The New Orleans Bingo! Show through a dark and mischievous imagining of the songs classic narrative as sung by Clint Maedgen (PHJB, The New Orleans Bingo! Show). Starring animated versions of Clint Maedgen, Ben Jaffe, and King Britt; and featuring appearances by such departed icons as John Brunious Jr., Sweet Emma Barrett, and Marie Laveau in such familiar settings as Preservation Hall, Jackson Square, and the long-defunct Pontchartrain Beach amusement park, St. James Infirmary is the third music video from Preservation Hall Recordings to feature the cross-over appeal of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and The New Orleans Bingo! Show.

ABOUT THE PRESERVATION HALL HOT 4 RELEASE "ST. PETER STREET SERENADE" AVAILABLE ON ITUNES NOW!

Following in the tradition of our 1996 recording, The Preservation Hall Hot 4 with Harold Duke Dejan, St. Peter Street Serenade is a collection of five small-arrangement performances of traditional jazz selections featuring vocalist Clint Maedgen and a variety of special guests. Embracing the new era of the independent online release, Preservation Hall Recordings has decided to make this very special package available for digital download only. Available exclusively from iTunes, these five tracks are available individually or as part of a package that includes the brand-new animated music video for St. James Infirmary, as well as the very popular videos for Complicated Life and I Cant Give You Anything But Love.

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About Director James Tancill:
A former native of New Orleans displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Visual Artist James Tancill now lives in Lafayette, Louisiana with his wife Jo Ellen. Currently an Instructor at the University of Louisiana, James has a BA and MFA from the University of New Orleans. Having spent most of his time in New Orleans projecting films for local theatres and teaching drawing and cartooning at the New Orleans Charter Middle School, it was only natural that he would eventually form his own animation company. Motivated by his passion for film, music, and classic cartoons, as well as by his deep love of all things New Orleans, James is very proud of the collaborative effort by which he and Ben Jaffe of Preservation Hall have captured the city of New Orleans in what may be the citys first locally-produced animation about the city itself.

About King Britt (in his own words)
Well, bios are funny because they tell the story of the past of who you are in the present. I try to only live in the present and the future (as I said, try). Even though beginning my career in 1990 on the now legendary house label Strictly Rhythm as E- Culture, being Silkworm in the ground- breaking, Grammy winning Digable Planets, starting Ovum Recordings with Josh Wink, producing platinum remixes for Macy Gray, Solange, Donna Lewis and hundreds of others, winning the highest grant in the country as the first dj/producer, The Pew Fellowship or starting my empire, FiveSixMedia, I still try to live in the NOW and not the then.

So of course, now, I am a father, fiance', musicologist of sorts and media revolutionary. My label and company FiveSixMedia, set the example of an individual who is able to live outside the box and show what freedom truly is. Doing my own thing on my own time and assisting other to move into that space as well.

The future is bright because I say it is. Stop and smell the flowers.

King Britt Links:
http://fivesixmedia.com
http://www.myspace.com/kingbritt
http://www.facebook.com/pages/King-Britt/32000132245

Category:

Music

Tags:

• preservation hall
• hot 4
• new orleans
• cartoon
• king britt
• clint maedgen
• bingo show
• sweet emma
• tancill
• jazz band
• ronnie numbers
• mr. the turk
• ben jaffe
• animated
• french quarter
• pontchartrain beach

[preservationhall]

Agreed DoctorPinkerton! Cheers to James Tancill and his team!

[Robin504able]

Even the Palmetto bugs/cockroaches got in on it... how many of yawl noticed them..??

R504Able

[anc9666]

This Video was so funny. The details were amazing and right on target with exact details of N.O. The digital technology in this video was great.

[jonnybogue]

Who's playing dat funky banjo? And the rest of the band?

-Kellso

[logipi79]

@fairportfan2 *sigh*..I like how responding is so beneath you that you have to *sigh* to be able to do it and have to write it in so that other people know it. Now following what you wonderfuly stated about blues/jazz being so more than related you invalidate your first statement "And nothin' but the blues" by your own contradiction. Also since they are a jazz band by nomenclature do you not think they impart a fair share of jazz upon the song? perhaps shifting the balance?

[fairportfan2]

@logipi79

*sigh* THIS song is the blues. That's why its full title is "St James Infirmary Blues" or "Gambler's Blues".

The blues and jazz are not just related - they overlap, just as the blues and country music overlap; Hank Williams was as much a blues man as he was what most people would think of as a country singer.

[logipi79]

@fairportfan2 jazz....jazz and blues are related but it's jazz not blues. which is why they are not called the preservation hall "blues" band

[logipi79]

@LBNANY they are called the preservation hall JAZZ band for a reason

[fairportfan2]

@LBNANY

Blues.

And nothin' but the blues.

[monklane]

That's great. Thanks.