{"id":63,"date":"2013-05-02T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=63"},"modified":"2015-03-23T21:04:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T02:04:22","slug":"jazzfest-review-times-picayune-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"JAZZFEST REVIEW: Times-Picayune (New Orleans)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-button-plugin\/images\/standard-facebook-ico.png\" alt=\"Fb-Button\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=63\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>Rain held off at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday morning, letting sousaphone star Kirk Joseph share his New Orleans roots with fans at the Acura Stage. A founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Joseph led his own ensemble, Back Yard Groove, through a program of dense, bottom-shaking funk, anchored by his big silver horn.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday (May 2), Backyard Groove ran about as deep as the Mississippi River, with two trap drummers, two percussionists, a savvy two-man horn section, and a guitarist with a taste for chunky riffs and minimalist melodic fragments. Joseph also turned the spotlight on Kyle Roussel, a young keyboard star who made waves at the Jazz Tent this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist Leslie Smith sailed over the band like an acrobat on a trampoline &#8212; and the dancing soul diva was joined for a brief guest spot by Cue, a Treme neighborhood vocal talent.<\/p>\n<p>Sousaphone star Kirk Joseph led his funk jam band, Backyard Groove, through a morning set at the Acura Stage of the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday, May 2, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone starting their day at the Acura Stage, Joseph&#8217;s band gave a delightful lesson in the pan-African pleasures of New Orleans music. The show was especially suited for anyone with a taste for melismatic vocal flights, driving call-and-response structures, and the extended jams of Fela Kuti and Miles Davis circa 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Waddington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/jazzfest\/index.ssf\/2013\/05\/kirk_joseph_delivered_a_sousap.html\" target=\"_blank\">NOLA.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rain held off at New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday morning, letting sousaphone star Kirk Joseph share his New Orleans roots with fans at the Acura Stage. A founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Joseph led his own ensemble, Back Yard Groove, through a program of dense, bottom-shaking funk, anchored by his big silver horn. On Thursday (May 2), Backyard Groove ran about as deep as the Mississippi River, with two trap drummers, two percussionists, a savvy two-man horn section, and a guitarist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[9,8],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviews","tag-jazzfest","tag-new-orleans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions\/65"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirkjoseph.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}