Eddie Boh Paris & the Funky 7 Brass Band

SONO 1065

The Funky 7 Brass Band takes a lot of shapes. Trombonist and vocalist and all around entertainer, Eddie Boh Paris, re-creates the Funky 7 to fit the situation. The never changing ingredient is the happy sound! Eddie Boh Paris has carved out a niche for himself in the New Orleans musical landscape. He has taken with him valuable experience from the many groups that he has played in. From the small street bands, from the world famous Olympia Brass Band with which he has traveled the world, and from the fabulously talented Gary Brown with whom Eddie Boh Paris has also toured with, from the many years of playing in the French Quarter of New Orleans, perhaps the world s best school of music! Many New Orleans musicians look to Eddie Boh Paris as the man to help them to get more playing gigs. Eddie has the leadership abilities that keep him in demand, from Jackson Square to the capitals of the world. He has the fire that keeps his musical soul hot!

On this album, he has assembled two of the bands that are part of his regular variations. Of course, he has to display a little of the typical New Orleans brass band music with Basin Street Blues, with his own style of vocalization. The brass band has two variations, using great players in both ensembles, including some of the legends of New Orleans jazz. Eddie also used a variation on that form as well, by using a drum set player instead of the two different drummers, creating a really tight and interesting sound.

Eddie also presents his “sit-down group that can really swing. This is the group that many visitors to New Orleans has heard at the Famous Door on Bourbon Street and the Spotted Cat on the increasingly popular Frenchmen Street area.

By using the two group formations, Eddie Boh Paris has assembled songs played by the great musicians who are always willing to work with him, and each song has the necessary players to make the best presentation.

Truly an outstanding collection of old and new material, this CD brings the listener back to New Orleans every time it is played.

1. Bourbon street parade

2. Whooping blues

3. Sunny side of the street

4. Wonderful world

5. Sick & Tired

6. Undecided

7. I found a new baby

8. Why you walking all alone

9. Do you know what it means

10. Basin Street Blues

11. Little liza jane

12. Saints

13. Blue Bossa

14. Milestones

Eddie Boh Paris-Trombone & Vocals

Elliot “Stackman Callier – Tenor Saxophone

Thaddeus Richard- Alto Saxophone

William Smith – Trumpet

Jamelle Williams - Trumpet

Kirk Joseph - Tuba

Jeffrey Hills- Tuba

Cranston Clements - Guitar.

Miles Wright- Bass

Kevin O Day - Drums

Jerry Anderson – Drums

Produced by Gary J. Edwards