Event
Music Monday: Arrowhead Jazz Band featuring Charlie Gabriel
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Fee:
Free.Dates & Times
Date:
Monday, January 25, 2021
Time:
2:00 PM
Duration:
1 hour
Type of Event
Performance
Virtual/Digital
Description
Arrowhead Jazz Band featuring Charlie Gabriel "I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter"
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park presents the Arrowhead Jazz Band. The Arrowhead Jazz Band is an ever flowing musical ensemble featuring National Park Rangers. The program is used to demonstrate musical elements that helped nurture New Orleans’ role as the birthplace of jazz.
Known to friends and relatives as Charlie 'G', Charlie Gabriel was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is a fourth generation New Orleans jazz musician. Charlie has played authentic New Orleans music with top traditional musicians such as Kid Howard, Kid Sheik, Jim Robinson, George Lewis and others on Bourbon Street, at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and around the world.
‘I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter’ was written by Fred E Ahlert and Joe Young and has been performed by a vast number of artists. The first hit version was recorded on 8 May 1935 by Fats Waller, and reached number five on the Billboard chart. The following year it hit number three when recorded by The Boswell Sisters. One of the more recent recordings was in 2012 by the Beatles own, Paul McCartney.
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