Marsalis was echoing the sentiment of his former bandleader, drummer Elvin Jones, who adopted the tune as a theme song, according to the Kalamazoo liner notes - that rhythm and blues are the ice breakers in the jazz conversation.
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Trombone Shorty’s collaborations with Atlanta songwriter David Ryan Harris incorporated the funk rock influence of Harris’ group, Follow For Now - the Black rock band that inherited the Afro-punk traditions of bands like Living Colour, Fishbone, and Bad Brains who pushed back against MTV’s whitewashing of mainstream rock music.
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Co-written with Alonzo “Novel” Stevenson and Taura Stinson, “Fire and Brimstone” contains twelve bars of Trombone Shorty’s best improvisational flow.
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