Preservation Hall Jazz Band
“Made In New Orleans" Boxed Collection
$50.00

More than just music, this unique box set is a musical, visual and historical exploration into the history of Preservation Hall.   After Hurricane Katrina, Benjamin Jaffe salvaged master tracks of early Preservation Hall Jazz Band recordings from the legendary Sea-Saint studios which had been flooded by 8 feet of water. The tracks, which were originally produced by his father Allan Jaffe (1936-1987), inspired Benjamin to create a musical and visual experience that bridges the bands past to the present. Made In New Orleans is both a collaborative co-production between Allan Jaffe and his son Benjamin Jaffe and a meeting between the classic Preservation Hall Jazz Band lineup and the contemporary PHJB ensemble featuring John Brunious, Carl Leblanc, Rickie Monie, Joseph Lastie Jr., Walter Payton, Frank Demond, and Ralph Johnson. According to Jaffe, “Made in New Orleans demonstrates the sustainability of New Orleans Jazz as a timeless cultural art form.”

A treasure trove of rare recordings, original photographs, a DVD and more! The Made in New Orleans box set includes peerless artifacts including candid unreleased tour snapshots, promotional photos from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, assorted memorabilia and a few surprises. Manufactured in New Orleans and hand assembled at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter, the retro-design was created by New Orleans based graphic artist Casey McAllister. No two box sets are alike.
(Preservation Hall Recordings 2007)

DVD Track Listing
01. COMPLICATED LIFE
02. EARLY NEWS REEL
03. BRINKLEY NEWS HOUR 1961
04. NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL
05. GERMAN TV NEWS REEL 1960's
06. GERMAN TV NEWS REEL Part II
07. GEORGE LEWIS ALL-STARS, "Red Wing"

The DVD chronicles the band’s history and includes the first television appearance by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on the Brinkley News Hour in 1961, rare concert footage from the Newport Jazz Festival and a video of Preservation Hall filmed in the early sixties. In a contemporary ode to New Orleans the DVD also includes a video for the song “Complicated Life”. Directed by New Orleans native Henry Griffin and shot in the French Quarter months before the floods of 2005, the video follows Clint Maedgen through pre-Katrina New Orleans as he cycles through the French Quarter with a cast of revelers in tow and ends at Preservation Hall where the journey of Made in New Orleans began.

CD Track Listing
01. RADIO INTRO
02. HOW LONG BLUES
03. EH LA BA
04. BAND INTRODUCTION
05. APPLE TREE
06. COMPLICATED LIFE
07. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO MISS NEW ORLEANS
08. INTRO.
09. LORD I DON'T WANT TO BE BURIED
10. OVER IN THE GLORYLAND
11. HEEBEE JEEBIES
12. BLOW WIND BLOW
13. SUGAR BLUES
14. I CAN'T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE
15. WHO THREW THE WHISKEY IN THE WELL
16. PRECIOUS LORD
17. LAST CHANCE TO DANCE

The CD spans decades of recordings by The Preservation Hall Jazz Band including the seminal track “Over in the Glory Land.” This lost track was originally recorded by Allan Jaffe in 1970 and was discovered in the post-Katrina debris of Sea-Saint Studios. Ben Jaffe recorded the current PHJB banjo player Carl LeBlanc singing with the original PHJB ensemble. “This version of “Over in the Glory Land”, bridges our past with our present” states Ben Jaffe. The CD also includes a prescient version of “Blow Wind Blow” by folk artist and street preacher, Sister Gertrude Morgan. Originally recorded in 1959, the song is augmented with accompaniment by current PHJB members John Brunious and Carl Leblanc with special guest Stanton Moore of Galactic on Drums. “Lord I Don’t Want to be Buried in the Storm” is an unreleased number by Sister Gertrude Morgan which now seems prophetic. The playful “Eh Lah Bah” is a lost live recording performed by the iconic husband and wife team of Billie & De De Pierce at Stanford University in 1972. On “Precious Lord,” Sing Miller performs with an all-star lineup of PHJB legends–Willie and Percy Humphrey, Narvin Kimball, Frank Demond, Josiah Cie Frazier and Allan Jaffe on tuba. Adding a modern twist to the proceedings, Ben Jaffe arranged and produced a remake of the Kinks classic “Complicated Life” featuring guest vocalist Clint Maedgen of the New Orleans Bingo! Show.