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The Hot Tamale Brass Band creates an exciting musical excursion into New Orleans, land of colorful Mardi Gras parades, Dixieland Jazz and Second Line traditions.
The Hot Tamales jam at local Boston clubs,
perform as a Mardi Gras band at theme parties,
Second Line band for all types of parades
and the Hot Tamale Brass Band plays Dixieland for people of all ages.
*SEE THE HOT TAMALE BRASS BAND AT FENWAY PARK*
PRE-GAME SHOW EVERY HOME GAME
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Hot Tamale Brass Band
Boston Red Sox favorite New Orleans jazz band
posing with the 2004 world series trophy
Hot Tamale Brass Band and Hazel Mae with the 2007 World Series Trophy
"GO GET 'EM 2008 RED SOX"
HOT TAMALES ARE BOOKING EVENTS FOR 2008
CALL MICKEY BONES AT 617-864-4474
FOR HOT TAMALE BRASS BAND JAZZ
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The Hot Tamale Brass Band Plays Funky New Orleans Jazz
*BOSTON GLOBE-"Inspired and spirited"
*BOSTON HERALD-"Enjoyed the live music" "Hot Tamale Brass Band heats up the neighborhood"
The Hot Tamale Brass Band have their origins in the colorful Dixieland band that used to hold forth during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in New Orleans. It was not unusual at Mardi Gras time at fairs, weddings, conventions, patriotic celebrations and other special occasions to see a dozen or more brass bands, or a Dixieland band making the environs of the Crescent city resound with the sounds of Dixieland band music.
As far as style - rhythmic and, tonal and dynamic material - is concerned, New Orleans music and it's tangential Dixieland band drew on many exciting sources - African polyrhythmic elements, the black spirituals, the work songs, and western and central European musical models which found their way to American shores. The first outstanding Dixieland band exponent is generally acknowledged to have been Jack "Papa" Laine who attracted attention around 1892, when he organized a group known as the Reliance Brass Band. During the the next dozen or so years many Dixieland band players won recognition, and by 1910 there were two main schools of Dixieland band styes of playing. The difference between them involved not so much the matter of instrumentation as it did the rhythmic characteristics of the music. One school -the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - was exemplified by the fast rhythms and rather staccato and agitated execution, The other school, usually identified with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, was identified by a smoother rhythm. Both had one characteristic in common - the fastening of syncopation and polyrhythmic ideas into one - and two measure phrases repeated again and again.
If these two Dixieland band schools are used as a yardstick, the Hot Tamale Brass Band can be described as a synthesis of both, the end result...a great Dixieland band and a great funky New Orleans brass band.
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BOSTON GLOBE REVEIW OF THE HOT TAMALE BRASS BAND
*Boston First Night Wrote;
Dear Mickey,
Thank you so much for all your efforts and help with the First night 25th Birthday Celebration in Copley Square. Everyone had a fabulous time and our board of directors along with the visiting First Night cities called it a great success. Much of the praise belongs to you and the Hot Tamale Brass Band. You guys were the hit of the party-kept everybody dancing and the festivities hopping! Once again THANK YOU from all of us at First Night. Talk to you soon.
Gina Mullen-Production Director for Boston First Night
*BOSTON PHOENIX, Brett Milano wrote on Billy Ruane's 35th Birthday Bash at three clubs simultaneously, T.T The Bears, The Middle East and Green Street Grill;
On Tuesday, you had to keep moving, through hallways that got crowded all the time, to catch the alternating 20-minute sets at T.T.'s and both levels of the Middle East(and sometimes the music moved with you, as the Hot Tamale Brass Band paraded through the clubs New Orleans style, adding a surreal element to the proceedings).
*BOSTON GLOBE, David Wildman wrote;
One of the most important lessons that Mickey Bones of the Hot Tamale Brass Band has learned in his years of show business he learned the hard way; If your group is performing in a parade with the Ringling Brothers elephants, you should never let them put you between the elephants and the food." Bones recounted;"The parade organizers said,'When we give you the signal, you start marching in front of the elephants and start playing.' But they were running them along at a pretty good clip, and in front of us was the cornbread and the water, that was what the elephants wanted. No one told us we were going to have to run for our lives. I turned around and saw this three-story-tall elephant coming at me"
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God bless Thorny Penfield.
My old buddy from New Orleans passed away August 21st 2007.
He was a Quaker and a mover. He did me some big favors when I moved to New Orleans. He got me in my first working band in NOLA before I even arrived and put me up in his home while I was still living out of my moving van. He was a good hearted guy.
Thorny Penfield was my girlfriend's mother's cousin but I suppose he was everybody's cousin or brother. He would call me frequently to go out to hear bands in New Orleans, once remarking, "All my friends are getting too old and don't want to come out.". I was always happy to go with him and though I was twenty years his junior, he always had as much energy as I did. What a zest for life he had !
Every great place to eat, every great place to hear live music in New Orleans, Thorny either told me about it or brought me there personally.
THANK YOU THORNY PENFIELD
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Hot Tamale Brass Band is a Boston dixieland band Boston also a Boston mardi gras band Boston, featuring mickey bones drums Sax Gordon Beadle sax tenor sax Timo Shanko sax tenor saxophone Grayson Farmer trumpet Scott Aruda trumpet Scott Shetler sax Scotty Shetler sax tenor saxophone Mark Chenevert sax Dave Birkin sax Scott Flynn trombone Jerome Smith tuba trombone Jeff Gallindo trombone Taka Hagiwara tuba Lee Jacobs tuba Matt Boucher tuba Mark Earley sax Karl Bryan sax Bryan MacMartin trombone John McGovern trumpet Bob Holfelder trombone Andy Voelker tenor sax Walt Bostian trombone John Morriconi trumpet Sarah Privler trombone Arty Barbato trumpet Walter Platt trumpet Will Lombardelli trombone Lee Neckritz sax Hot Tamale Brass band is a jazz funeral band and Boston dixieland band Boston playing Boston mardi gras music and New Orleans jazz funeral music the Hot Tamale Brass Band Boston dixieland musicians Boston New Orleans jazz musicians Boston mardi gras musicians Boston featuring mickey bones and Sax Gordon Beadle saxaphone along with Timo Shanko
Hot Tamale Brass Band a Boston dixieland band Boston and a Boston mardi gras band Boston with mickey bones drummer Sax Gordon Beadle playing tenor sax and Timo Shanko on sax tenor saxophone with Grayson Farmer on trumpet Scott Aruda trumpet also Scott Shetler kicking on sax Scotty Shetler sax tenor playing saxophone Mark Chenevert performing on sax Dave Birkin sax with Scott Flynn trombone Jerome Smith tuba on trombone Jeff Gallindo trombone Taka Hagiwara tuba Lee Jacobs playing tuba Matt Boucher making it happen on tuba Mark Earley sax the lovable Karl Bryan on sax Bryan MacMartin plays trombone John McGovern trumpet wailing Bob Holfelder does trombone Andy Voelker walking tenor sax Walt Bostian jams on trombone John Morriconi plays trumpet Sarah Privler on trombone Arty Barbato trumpet walking Walter Platt trumpet with Will Lombardelli doing trombone Lee Neckritz sax Hot Tamale Brass band is a jazz funeral band traditional Boston dixieland band Boston playing great Boston mardi gras music also New Orleans jazz funeral music all with Hot Tamale Brass Band Boston dixieland musicians playing Boston New Orleans jazz musicians you'll love the Boston mardi gras musicians Boston featuring mickey bones and Sax Gordon Beadle saxaphone along with Timo Shanko is a monter on sax
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