{"id":208,"date":"2009-02-08T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2009-02-08T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T19:01:00","slug":"more-no-funerals-and-a-pompous-flee-as-a-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"N.O. funerals and “Flee As A Bird”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jelly Roll Morton’s piano roll of “Dead Man Blues”, quoting “Flee As A Bird” in the intro: MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Played by an Israeli New Orleans band called “The New Orleans Function”<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In this version they let the song roll through the bridge before picking it up with the tune “Didn’t He Ramble.”<\/p>\n

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Here’s a real-world 2006 funeral procession in New Orleans<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Little known fact: the party funeral was a direct import from Africa that was widely practiced by slaves and eventually evolved into the jazz funeral.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a really helluva nice example of a real world jazz funeral from 2007<\/a>. Anybody who gets such a good sendoff is a lucky person. <\/p>\n

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The song “Flee As A Bird” has also entered classical repertoire. This dude has a killer voice<\/a>, and if the orchestra is more pompous than strictly necessary how is that a bad thing? “Flee As A Bird” starts at about 2:30 if you want to skip the intro:<\/p>\n

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