New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag :: essays research papers

young Orleans live Band Dag"They contrive a condition down 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 itsown weather and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while roughly bad-assJazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite, and the sweatflows down from the stage like the sloughy waters of Pamlico Sound. Theres aword for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk practice of medicine so sweet and hot, youjust gotta shout something. The word is DAG" - capital of South Carolina Records     There is only one place on earth where I though I could go to contractthe true meaning of Jazz and to try to place myself in the shoes of altogether of theartists I have studied over the past semester. sensitive Orleans, Louisiana is justthat place. On April 10, 1996, I boarded a United Airlines plane bound, non-stop, for the "Home of Jazz." & nbsp   My goal in New Orleans was 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 get into the proper frame of mind of experiencing true Jazz. Thefocus of this enshroud will be on my life changing experience at a little placeknown as The House of Blues. This awe-inspiring combination of bar and stage createdone of the most conducive atmospheres to unison listening that I have constantly beeninvolved with. The stage, similar to the Fox, in Boulder and the bar/restaurant,similar to nothing both had a fiber 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 Jelly RollMorton grace the walls and ceilings of the HOB (House of Blues). Every beeron tap was a Louisiana maestro 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 empower "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 pull out in the Jazz industry.