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01 05:31 Just A Closer Walk With Thee
02 04:58 I Shall Not Be Moved
03 03:06 Please Let Me Stay A Little Longer
04 03:44 What A Friend We Have In Jesus
05 05:18 Jesus On The Mainline
06 04:40 John The Revelator
07 03:39 I'll Fly Away
08 03:06 Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus
09 05:06 Down By The Riverside
10 01:05 Amazing Grace
40:13 min Total Playing Time - Total Size 57,5 MB
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On their tenth album, the Crescent City's
Dirty Dozen Brass Band bring it all back
to the cobblestone streets where it
began. The Dozens have done it all, from
straight New Orleans jazz to restless
funky experimentation, and here they put
it all down to the roots of its origin.
Funeral for a Friend is just that, a
complete reenactment of a New Orleans
funeral or "homecoming." The Dozens
played them at the beginning and continue
to. The set is dedicated to the memory of
founding member Anthony "Tuba Fats"
Lacen, who passed away just a few weeks
after its completion. The band performed
it in the streets leading the horse-drawn
carriage procession. Comprised entirely
of gospel and spiritual songs, it follows
the trajectory of a departed one's life
from birth to celebrations of her or his
character to death and resurrection in
the afterlife. The first of the three
stages begins with a slow, mournful dirge
that emerges as "Just a Closer Walk With
Thee," as the gathering begins at the
courthouse and becomes a strident
statement in "I Shall Not Be Moved,"
where the grief begins to give way to the
feeling of victory, that the departed has
broken the bondage of this life's prison.
The music begins to swell and swirl and
gains in stridency and emotion until it
actually erupts about five tracks in with
"Jesus on the Mainline," with the band
accompanied by the Davell Crawford
Singers. The mind-blowing thing is the
sound; though this was recorded in a
studio, the listener feels like she's in
the middle of a throng of marchers,
surrounded by the band and the choir. The
second stage begins with a stunning
rendering of "John the Revelator" that
simulates being played at the gravesite
and offers this bluesy prophetic read on
the entrance of the departed into a new
order prophesied. It is resolved in "I'll
Fly Away," with Melody Palmer leading the
choir in a rowdy statement of death's
defeat. This is followed by an altar call
in "Is There Anybody Here That Loves My
Jesus?" The final stage ù leaving the
cemetery for home ù is commenced by the
funky read of "Down by the Riverside,"
and is resolved in the celebratory
gratitude for mercy in "Amazing Grace."
But this review does nothing, literally,
to describe the sheer power of the
transference of emotion that Funeral for
a Friend does. This is easily the most
heartfelt, honestly rendered, and
stunningly captured moment of the DDBB's
recording career; it belongs in every
household where the celebration of life
and its transition from the sorrow of
death to the eternal afterlife is
honored. It is not only a classic in the
genre, but will come to be regarded as a
jazz classic, period.
Retail As Always!! Enjoy!
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