Regal Jazz Band/ Smitty Dee Brass Band

New Orleans favorites

SONO 1040

The Songs:

1 The Bird-5:15

2 Darktown Strutters Ball-3:58 Vocal: Sam Venable

3 Filé Gumbo-3:16 Vocal: Smitty Dee Chorus

4 Make Me a Pallet-3:36 Vocal: Butch Gomez

5 All Saints Day-7:13

6 Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird-3:38 Vocal: Raynard Hockett

7 Ice Cream-5:05 Vocal: Smitty Dee Chorus

8 Muskrat Ramble-4:05 Vocal: Sam Venable

9 Glory, Glory-4:07 Vocal: Smitty Dee Chorus

10 Don't Get Around Much Anymore-4:02

The Musicians:

Dimitri Smith-Tuba

Butch Gomez-Soprano sax

Omari Thomas-Trumpet

Percy Anderson-Trumpet

Desmond Venable-Trumpet

Sam Venable-Vocals and Trombone

Richard Anderson-Trombone

Calvin Snowden-Guitar

Raynard Hockett-Bass drum,

Louis Hillard-Drum set

William Tyler-Snare drum

Brian Berg-Tenor Saxophone.

The New Orleans brass band sound has become a living art form, changing constantly, evolving from it's beginning sound about fifty years before the infamous Storyville was in it's heyday to the new, funky, hiphop neighborhood sound. Like the music, the Regal Jazz Band has evolved from the early days with members the likes of Danny Barker, Clement Tervalon, Father Al Lewis, Louis Nelson, Chester Zardis, Kid Sheik, to all the new, young, talented musicians of present.

The Regal Jazz Band was begun in 1979 by soprano saxophonist Butch Gomez, who was also one of the original members of the Treme Brass Band. Co-colaborator and on tuba is Diimitri Smith, formerly with Olympia Brass Band and founder of Smitty Dee's Brass Band. Dimitri and Butch blended their sounds in 1994.

Listening to this music takes one's spirit through a deversity of feelings. From joyful, soul searching, sweet sounds of Glory to the traditional New Orleans sound of Muskrat Ramble and Darktown Strutter's Ball to the purely light-hearted, street funk sound of Ice Cream and The Bird to this band's hot, hot, arrangement of All Saints Day, which is so exciting and new that there are no words to describe it.

This music has something for everyone's musical taste and will have you constantly pumping up the volume.