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The Hot Tamale Brass Band creates an exciting musical excursion into New Orleans, land of colorful Mardi Gras parades, Dixieland Jazz and Second Line traditions.

The Hot Tamales jam at local Boston clubs, perform as a Mardi Gras band at theme partys, Second Line band for all types of parades and the Hot Tamale Brass Band plays Dixieland for people of all ages.

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The Hot Tamale Brass Band have their origins in the colorful Dixieland band that used to hold forth during the late 19th and early 20th centuries in New Orleans. It was not unusual at Mardi Gras time at fairs, weddings, conventions, patriotic celebrations and other special occassions to see a dozen or more brass bands, or a Dixieland band making the environs of the Crescent city resound with the sounds of Dixieland band music.

As far as style - rhythmic and, tonal and dynamic material - is concerned, New Orleans music and it's tangential Dixieland band drew on many exciting sources - African polyrhythmic elements, the black spirituals, the work songs, and western and central European musical models which found their way to American shores. The first outstanding Dixieland band exponent is generaly acknowledged to have been Jack "Papa" Laine who attracted attention around 1892, when he organized a group known as the Reliance Brass Band. During the the next dozen or so years many Dixieland band players won recognition, and by 1910 there were two main schools of Dixieland band styes of playing. The difference between them involved not so much the matter of instrumentation as it did the rhythmic characteristics of the music. One school -the Original Dixieland Jazz Band - was exemplified by the fast rhythms and rather staccatto and agitated excecution, The other school, usually identified with the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, was identified by a smoother rhythm. Both had one characteristic in common - the fastening of syncopation and polyrhythmic ideas into one - and two measure phrases repeated again and again.

If these two Dixieland band schools are used as a yardstick, the Hot Tamale Brass Band can be described as a synthesis of both, the end result...a great Dixieland band and a great funky New Orleans brass band.

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