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- Ben Jaffe toured with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing double bass and tuba.
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Ben Jaffe toured with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, playing double bass and tuba. He began the educational initiatives that his father developed.
He also played the tuba in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and took the group on tours worldwide, booking them into the finest music and performance halls and making appearances at cultural events of note even in small communities.
Even the instruments used by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, founded with the hall in 1961, feel a bit old: It’s been a while since clarinets and tubas were central to popular music.
Ahead of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s show at Toronto’s Roy Thomson Hall, Ben Jaffe joined us over the phone to talk more about his family’s legacy in New Orleans, what music really means to the city, and what it was like to work with Tom Waits.
Oct 5, 2022 · The elder Jaffes built Preservation Hall into an internationally known institution that, as the legend goes, all but single-handedly saved New Orleans jazz from extinction. This story was...
Oct 17, 2018 · Growing up just blocks away from New Orleans Preservation Hall, Ben Jaffe has a deep intuition about the tradition behind today's Preservation Hall Jazz Band. He is now its creative director and tuba player, and his dad Allan founded the group in the 60s and played tuba in the band as well.
Apr 5, 2019 · We asked Jaffe to take a deep dive and choose five Preservation Hall songs that have changed his life. Read on to play his picks, from Tom Waits to the Kinks.
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