[Dixielandjazz] Joe Avery's Tune

[Jara Queeto]

I saw that movie for the first time recently -- Live and Let Die.

I'm pretty certain that that was the Great Olympia Brass Band doing  
that funeral/murder. Didn't they start out with Just a Closer Walk  
With Thee, and after they put the body in the coffin, they break into  
The Second Line and everyone starts dancing.

That song is simply called the Second Line, one of the oldest and  
most common parade songs. A friend of mine from New Orleans told me  
that it is learned by Middle School.

And Bill Haley pretty much lifted it when he came out with Rock  
Around the Clock.


Jara


Jara Queeto
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On Jan 29, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Tom Duncan wrote:

> This is a fun tune for New Orleans flavor (remember the James Bond  
> film
> where the street band plays a dirge, stops to pick up a fresh  
> corpse in a
> false bottomed coffin, and breaks into an up tempo Joe Avery's Tune  
> as they
> march off) or as march or second line tune.
>
> I also know it as "The New Second Line."
>