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is no better example of the continuity of New Orleans’ musical
traditions than the back-to-back sets by the Midnite Disturbers
and the Treme Brass Band on Sunday afternoon at the New Orleans
Jazz & Heritage Festival. The first band is an ad hoc,
T-shirted, all-star group of New Orleans funk musicians rounded
up by Stanton Moore, the brilliant drummer for the rock’n’funk
band Galactic. The second is an old-school, uniformed marching
band that has been a local institution since the 1960s.  And yet
both groups were firmly grounded in the legacy of the city’s
brass bands that take to the streets for funeral processions,
Mardi Gras parades and block parties. Both relied solely on
horns and percussion to create all the melody, harmony and
rhythm anyone could ever want. Both drew on the same stockpile
of New Orleans standards that they reworked for their own
purposes. In fact, they were so much