"Street Music" - Trombone Shorty

“Street Music” (PDF) from the Trombone Shorty & New Breed Brass Band album Second Line Sunday

Beginning with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, the music of second line parades shifted away from the traditional gospel hymns and toward the party sounds of New Orleans r&b and modern funk that were more popular in the city streets. In similar Dirty Dozen fashion, Trombone Shorty’s solo on “Street Music” dances above the grooving bassline of the baritone sax - an instrument typically played in a stationary location rather than marching throughout the neighborhoods. Another break from tradition, the Shorty and New Breed get down in the key of D minor - “funky D,” rather than the more-brass-band-friendly key of Bb - to echo the guitar-driven dance music coming out of the clubs and onto the corners of Frenchman Street.