It wasn’t the usual setup at Powell Symphony Hall: In front of a set of black curtains that stretched the length of the stage sat a grand piano, a trap drum set, a sousaphone, four straight chairs and a bar stool.
On Friday the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra took a night off. In their place was the touring Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing their distinctive New Orleans jazz for an appreciative audience.
There were seven names in the program: Rickie Monie, piano; Walter Payton, bass and vocals; Ralph Johnson (playing clarinet, not saxophone as listed); Clint Maedgen, saxophone and vocals; Mark Braud, trumpet; Frank Demond, trombone; and Joe Lastie, percussion.
Not credited was Ben Jaffe, the band’s director and the son of the couple who long ran Preservation Hall, an extravagantly dreadlocked bundle of nervous energy who played sousaphone and tambourine (sometimes simultaneously), did vocals, spoke and performed a high-powered bass solo.
On Friday the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra took a night off. In their place was the touring Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing their distinctive New Orleans jazz for an appreciative audience.
There were seven names in the program: Rickie Monie, piano; Walter Payton, bass and vocals; Ralph Johnson (playing clarinet, not saxophone as listed); Clint Maedgen, saxophone and vocals; Mark Braud, trumpet; Frank Demond, trombone; and Joe Lastie, percussion.
Not credited was Ben Jaffe, the band’s director and the son of the couple who long ran Preservation Hall, an extravagantly dreadlocked bundle of nervous energy who played sousaphone and tambourine (sometimes simultaneously), did vocals, spoke and performed a high-powered bass solo.
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