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If you missed last Sunday's set from Partners N Crime and 5th Ward Weebie at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, you missed out. The high-energy, hour-long upbeat jam demonstrated the common roots of multiple branches of New Orleans street music, including bounce, brass bands and Indian chants.
Both Weebie and PNC were among the first local rappers to integrate R&B into bounce music. At Jazz Fest, hip-hop songstress and rapper Ms Tee joined both acts to belt out vintage collaborations like "Lovin' You," with 5th Ward Weebie, and "Why You Actin' Funny" with Kango Slimm of Partners N Crime. C. Smith, a percussionist and producer who's worked with both acts as well as Trombone Shorty, played electronic drums and DJ'd live; Shorty himself appeared for a second-line jam. The set split the difference between roots-influenced songs like PNC's classic "N.O. Block Party," which riffs on the "Iko Iko" melody, and club bangers like "Pump The Party" and Weebie's new single "Bend It Ova Back It Up."
New Orleans bounce shows are well served by a close nightclub atmosphere. At Jazz Fest, the gulf between stage and crowd, plus the light of day, can conspire against a lone MC rapping over a track, attenuating the experience. Weebie and PNC's revue, which included the Big Easy Bounce Band (Jon Gross on sousaphone, drummer-about-town Eric Heigle, Drew Meehan on keys, Reggie Nicholls on keys and samples, Matt Clark on guitar and percussionist Herb Stevens) and the livewire dancers of Big Choo's Game Ova Boys, didn't have that problem.
On Monday, May 9, PNC and Weebie will reunite with the live band at the Boot on Tulane's campus for a gig that's being billed as the School's Out Bounce Party. They'll be joined by 90's veteran Ricky B, who's also notable for recording bounce tracks anchored by marching and brass-band sounds. (The fest's over - now finals are, too.)
The School's Out Bounce Party, sponsored by Captain Morgan, kicks off at 10 p.m. Monday, May 9 at the Boot, 1039 Broadway at Zimple St., 866-9008.
ILL BE THERE ON MONDAY
If you missed last Sunday's set from Partners N Crime and 5th Ward Weebie at the New Orleans Jazz Fest, you missed out. The high-energy, hour-long upbeat jam demonstrated the common roots of multiple branches of New Orleans street music, including bounce, brass bands and Indian chants.
Both Weebie and PNC were among the first local rappers to integrate R&B into bounce music. At Jazz Fest, hip-hop songstress and rapper Ms Tee joined both acts to belt out vintage collaborations like "Lovin' You," with 5th Ward Weebie, and "Why You Actin' Funny" with Kango Slimm of Partners N Crime. C. Smith, a percussionist and producer who's worked with both acts as well as Trombone Shorty, played electronic drums and DJ'd live; Shorty himself appeared for a second-line jam. The set split the difference between roots-influenced songs like PNC's classic "N.O. Block Party," which riffs on the "Iko Iko" melody, and club bangers like "Pump The Party" and Weebie's new single "Bend It Ova Back It Up."
New Orleans bounce shows are well served by a close nightclub atmosphere. At Jazz Fest, the gulf between stage and crowd, plus the light of day, can conspire against a lone MC rapping over a track, attenuating the experience. Weebie and PNC's revue, which included the Big Easy Bounce Band (Jon Gross on sousaphone, drummer-about-town Eric Heigle, Drew Meehan on keys, Reggie Nicholls on keys and samples, Matt Clark on guitar and percussionist Herb Stevens) and the livewire dancers of Big Choo's Game Ova Boys, didn't have that problem.
On Monday, May 9, PNC and Weebie will reunite with the live band at the Boot on Tulane's campus for a gig that's being billed as the School's Out Bounce Party. They'll be joined by 90's veteran Ricky B, who's also notable for recording bounce tracks anchored by marching and brass-band sounds. (The fest's over - now finals are, too.)
The School's Out Bounce Party, sponsored by Captain Morgan, kicks off at 10 p.m. Monday, May 9 at the Boot, 1039 Broadway at Zimple St., 866-9008.
ILL BE THERE ON MONDAY
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