Today I decided to listen to the latest podcast of the
Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC
On February 8th the Red Hook Ramblers – a Brooklyn based Dixieland band – played live in this show – some really great dixieland music. You can download this as a podcast, as mp3 or listen to it as streaming audio.
The Antique Phonograph Music Program is a weekly show with original music played from Edison cylinders and 78 records on original phonographs – but from time to time there are visitors to the show like the Red Hook Ramblers who play music live or talk about the old records with the host Mac.
On the Red Hok Ramblers’ homepage I have found the following information:
Originating in one of Brooklyn’s oldest seaside neighborhoods, the The Red Hook Ramblers were formed in 2005 by friends who share a passion for classic jazz. Over several months, the group’s performances built out from kitchen jams to regular gigs at Sunny’s Bar, Red Hook’s famous mariner’s haunt, and their repertoire came to encompass a wide range of early jazz songs and styles, learned by studying recordings dating from the 1890s to the late 1930s. Blues, ragtime, spirituals, New Orleans ensemble playing, Chicago-style soloing, and a number of New York’s Tin Pan Alley and Harlem “jungle” tunes all mixed in to make the Red Hook Ramblers an “all-things traditional jazz” unit.
The Red Hook Ramblers are:
Jason Benjamin – Cornet, Vocals
Chris Cortier – Trombone, Vocals
Curt Garey – Drums
Chris Johnson – Banjo, Piano, Vocals
Joe Keady – Tuba
Janelle Reichman – Clarinet
The Red Hook Ramblers have just produced a new CD which will be presented in a CD release party on Feb. 19th.
I have found a nice video from a local tv program:
The Red Hook Ramblers: NB Best of Music
Presentation of the Red Hook Ramblers by BKindependent TV
Red Hook Ramblers play “Darktown Strutters Ball”
Here are Brooklyn’s very own Red Hook Ramblers performing a classic tune from the roaring ’20s.
www.redhookramblers.com
That’s A-Plenty
The Red Hook Ramblers, perform “That’s A-Plenty,” written in 1917.
(Jethro Burns played this tune too on his mandolin…)
Additional Information
Homepage: http://www.redhookramblers.com/
youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/redhookramblers
Another broadcast of the Antique Phonograph Music Program took place in 2007, it can also be found here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/AP – November 6, 2007 | with Diixeland Jass band, “The Red Hook Ramblers”