On the Playlist 20JUN2018…

Last night talking with the kids about music. My youngest has taken up the baritone (like a small tuba - small in a relative sense) in grade 5 and was interested in her future possibilities. I suggested she could join the jazz band in middle school. She wasn't sure if that was a possibility and I explained that baritone or tuba is actually a very traditional jazz instrument from New Orleans and the marching bands that form part of a crew and part of the second line parades. I reminded her of a band I had taken her to see a couple years ago in LA called the Hot 8 Brass Band that do a New Orleans marching jazz band with a hip-hop touch to it. So today, as reminded by that discussion, I put a couple of their albums onto the playlist. One of their better tracks is a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing."

The Hot 8 Brass Band - “Sexual Healing”