Jewel Brown - That's a pretty good love (featuring Bloodest Saxophone) (HD)

(Rest in Peace) Jewel Brown (August 30, 1937 - June 25, 2024)
The incomparable Jewel Brown still cookin' into her 80's, during the Eastside Kings festival on Sept.9th 2017 in Austin,Texas
The Houston,Texas songstress is backed by those Tokyo hepcats known as Bloodest Saxophone.
By Times-Picayune Staff
on August 06, 2005 at 5:30 PM, updated April 06, 2010 at 5:34 PM
Lynne Jensen wrote this report.
A young nightclub performer from Houston with a booming bluesy voice, Jewel Brown faced a once-in-a-lifetime career choice in 1961: whether to join Duke Ellington's band or Louis Armstrong's.
"I said Louis Armstrong in a flash, " Brown recalled this week in the French Quarter hotel room that is her home while here for the fifth annual Satchmo Summerfest.
"It was for the simple reason that I was looking at working with 17 guys in Ellington's band and six with Louis, " she said. "And Duke didn't like to fly, while Louis was traveling all over the world."
Brown, 67, sang with Armstrong and his band from 1961 to 1968, three years before the great jazz musician died, at 69.
In the 1960s, Armstrong traveled as an entertainer and as a goodwill ambassador for the United States. As part of his group, Brown played behind the Iron Curtain, where "they were starved for entertainment, " she said. In Budapest, Hungary, the band looked out on "a sea of bicycles and 90,000 people" who seemed to vanish as they left the performance "with so much order you didn't hear a sound from them, " she said.
Brown appeared in several films with Satchmo, including "Louis Armstrong and the All Stars" and "Solo."
Armstrong was born in New Orleans but, for many years, refused to perform in his hometown because of segregation. He did return after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Brown sang with Armstrong during his last performance in New Orleans in 1965.
Bloodest Saxophone are:
Koda "Young Corn" Shintaro: Tenor Saxophone
Coh: Trombone
Osikawa Yukimasa: Baritone Saxophone
Shuji: Guitar
THE TAKEO: Upright Bass
Kiminori: Drums
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[@shunwashington3101]

Miss Jewel befriended me and my sons before this trip. This concert changed her life and gave her desire to sing again. She said she was so impressed with how kind and respectful she was treated. Going to miss her!

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Love it!! Sing sista.