New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag :: essays research papers

New Orleans Jazz Band Dag"They hurl a word vanquish South to describe the way you feel when your packed intoa crowded dive at 100 AM, where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its witness weather and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-assJazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite, and the soapsudsflows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. Theres aword for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot, you effective gotta visit something. The word is DAG" - Columbia Records     There is only one place on earth where I though I could go to examinethe original meaning of Jazz and to try to place myself in the shoes of all of theartists I have studied over the past semester. New Orleans, Louisiana is justthat place. On April 10, 1996, I boarded a United Airlines plane bound, non-stop, for the "Home of Jazz."     My goal in New Orleans w as to try and have a comparable experience tothat of one of the popular Jazz artists would have had upon his/her first visitto New Orleans in the early 1900s. Bourbon Street, the French Quarter, JimmyBuffets Maragaritaville, The Flamingo, the Garden District, and Moolates allhelped me to lead into the proper frame of mind of experiencing true Jazz. Thefocus of this report will be on my life changing experience at a trivial placeknown as The House of Blues. This amazing combination of cast out and stage createdone of the most conducive atmospheres to music listening that I have ever beeninvolved with. The stage, similar to the Fox, in Boulder and the bar/restaurant,similar to nothing both had a character and charm unique to itself. Theceilings in the bar area were covered by sculpted silhouettes of every majorJazz/Blues artist that ever played there. Images such as Louis Armstrong,Lester Young, Dizzie Gillespie, Buddy Bolden, Horace Silvers, and gelatin RollMorton adorned the wal ls and ceilings of the HOB (House of Blues). Every beeron tap was a Louisiana original and the only kind of cooking done there wasabsolutely Cajun.     On Thursday, April 11, 1996, I and 5 friends ventured into the legendaryhouse of Blues. Headlining was a band entitled "Dag." This up and comingBlues/Jazz/Rock band has been touted as New Orleans newest small success story.With a label on Columbia Records and an album entitled Righteous, Dag iscertainly a force in the Jazz industry.