“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 11/28/12:
At 101, trumpeter Lionel Ferbos isn’t ready to retire. He’s still playing gigs and, just last week, he made an appearance on the TV show, “Treme.” More here in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Take a look at this video taken at one of his performances two years ago. It’s his band, featuring clarinetist Brian O’Connell, saxophonist Tom Fischer, bassist Art Neville and drummer Ernie Elly, on “I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.” It was shot by Ricky Riccardi of the Louis Armstrong blog at dippermouth.blogspot.com at Maison during the Satchmo Club Strut on Frenchman Street. [Email subscribers: click here.]
(A 2013 update: Lionel Ferbos is now 102! He plays weekly at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe, where he leads the Palm Court Jazz Band on Saturday nights. Click here to read more.)
