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Unearthed live AUDIO of The Neville Brothers from Tipitina’s 1977

The Neville Brothers

Happy Jazz Fest 50! Here are some very rare audio recordings of The Neville Brothers on their home turf, live and raw, early in their career. I’m talking about 5 and a half hours of pristine soundboards! These are revelatory recordings and absolute gems with just the right amount of analog hiss. There are jams, ballads, jazzy work outs, fierce soul, hushed doo wop, and New Orleans rock n roll stompers. It’s a pleasure to find treasures like this and put them out into the world for others to enjoy!

Download both recordings together as MP3 or FLAC and FLAC.


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The Neville Brothers
November 12, 1977
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s

SBD > ??? > CDR > WAV > FLAC

01. (fades in) “Don’t Push The Button” > Jam
02. Fly Like An Eagle [Steve Miller Band]
03. Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
04. Baby What You Want Me To Do [Jimmy Reed]
05. The Greatest Love
06. instrumental
07. Tell It Like It Is
08. Africa
(set break)
09. (fades in) A Night In Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie]
10. Be My Lady
11. Fiyo on the Bayou > Ain’t No Use tease > Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) [Sly & The Family Stone]
12. All These Things [Allen Toussaint]
13. Fever [Little Willie John]
14. Woman’s Gotta Have It [Bobby Womack] > Love Ballad [L.T.D.] > Woman’s Gotta Have It
15. Here Dey Come, Meet The Boys On The Battlefront (with Big Chief Jolly & The Wild Tchoupitoulas)
(set break)
16. Ode To Billie Joe [Bobbie Gentry] (Instrumental)
17. Shake Rattle and Roll [Big Joe Turner], “Louisiana Woman”
18. Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
19. Hey Pocky A-Way

Aaron Neville – vocals, tambourine
Cyril Neville – vocals, percussion
Charles Neville – vocals, saxophone
Art Neville – vocals, keyboards
Gerald Tillman – organ
Newton Mossip or James Ledet – drums
Roger Poche or Hutch Hutchinson – bass
Renard Poche or Victor Sircoff – guitar

At the end of track 16, Art announces that New Orleans has a new mayor, “Morial”, Which confirms that the dates of these recordings are correct, as November of 1977 was when Mayor Ernest N. Morial was elected.

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The Neville Brothers
November 26, 1977
New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s

SBD > ??? > CDR > WAV > FLAC

01. Shake Rattle & Roll [Big Joe Turner] > I Take What I Want [Hayes – Hodges – Porter] > Sexy Ways [Hank Ballard]
02. I’m Leaving It Up To You > Momma Don’t Allow [Hank Thompson] > Jam
(set break / end of the night?)
03. Fly Like An Eagle
04. // Pocky Jam (inc. Wop Wop Wop Diddly > Suzie Q [Dale Hawkins] > I’m Your Captain [Grand Funk Railroad] > Cisco Kid [War] > Get Down [War] > Wop Wop Wop Diddly > It’s Your Thing [Isley Brothers])
(set break)
05. // Down By The Riverside
06. Let’s Start All Over Again [Buddy Johnson and His Orchestra / Clyde McPhatter] > Tell It Like It Is
07. Cabbage Alley (inc. Gossip > Cabbage Alley > Give Up The Funk [Parliament] > Louisiana Woman > Fear Hate Envy Jealousy (as Love Hate Envy Jealousy) > Don’t Push The Button (many of the same lyrics as “Wake Up”) > Respect Yourself [Staple Singers])
08. Junco Partner (with alternate lyrics) (with Big Chief Jolly) //
09. // Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Grateful Dead) > A couple lines of “Soothe Me” [Sam Cooke / Sam & Dave] are sung > jam/ending (there is another song during the jam that I can’t put my finger on)
10. The Greatest Love, Sitting In Limbo [Jimmy Cliff]
11. Be My Lady
12. Baby What You Want Me To Do [Jimmy Reed]
13. Stormy Monday [T-Bone Walker]
(set break)
14. Fiyo On The Bayou (inc. Hi-Heel Sneakers [Tommy Tucker]/ Ooh Poo Pa Doo [Jessie Hill], Burning Up In Love For You (?), Pressure Drop [Toots & The Maytals], My Bonnie, Down By The Riverside, I Been Hoodooed [Dr. John], Breakaway (?))
15. Arianne [Roudey / Martin]
16. Fever [Little Willie John]
17. All These Things [Allen Toussaint]
18. Instrumental
19. This Is My Story [Gene & Eunice]
20. A Night In Tunisia [Dizzy Gillespie]

Aaron Neville – vocals, tambourine
Cyril Neville – vocals, percussion
Charles Neville – vocals, saxophone
Art Neville – vocals, keyboards
Gerald Tillman – organ
Newton Mossip or James Ledet – drums
Roger Poche or Hutch Hutchinson – bass
Renard Poche or Victor Sircoff – guitar

This recording, unlike the 11/12/77 recording, has cuts between many of the songs, so the order of some of the songs or segments could be wrong.

Big Chief Jolly

Dumpstaphunk closes out Jazz Festival 2012 with The Neville Brothers and Ani DiFranco

Since 2006 Dumpstaphunk has closed out Jazz Fest at Tipitina’s every year on Sunday night of the 2nd weekend. Sadly, 2012 will be the last year of that tradition (per Ivan Neville‘s remarks at this show). 2012 also marks The Neville Brothers‘ “Farewell Tour”. Although no official statement has been made, their recent Hollywood Bowl performance was billed as “The Farewell Tour”, whatever that means.

This all makes this surprise appearance by the brothers even more historic as it is likely the very last time all 4 Neville Brothers will perform together inside this legendary club. Their last performances at Tip’s were in 2004 and 2003, and before that it was 1993.

When all 4 Neville Brothers (Art Neville, Aaron Neville, Charles Neville & Cyril Neville) came out and took over most of Dumpstaphunk’s first set, I was on hand to record it for posterity. With additional video from photographer extraordinaire John “Nunu” Zomot, and an audio recording by CosmicSoul420, you can enjoy the entire six song, 33 minute performance right here.

Keep in mind that this was Art “Poppa Funk” Neville’s fourth performance in 24 hours! The night before he tore it up with The Original Meters at the Howlin’ Wolf. And earlier on this day he played the Jazz & Heritage Festival with The Funky Meters at 2pm and then closed out the Festival with The Neville Brothers till 7pm. Not bad for “74 fuckin’ years old”.

Dumpstaphunk with The Neville Brothers
May 6, 2012 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
Brother Jake, Hercules, Healing Chant, Fever, Mojo Hannah (with James “Hutch” Hutchinson), Shake Your Tambourine (with Mean Willie Green):

Also, early in the second set, Dumpstaphunk invited out Ani DiFranco for this slightly altered Bill Withers cover.

Dumpstaphunk with Ani DiFranco
May 6, 2012 – New Orleans, LA @ Tipitina’s
Who Is (S)he and What Is (S)he To You (Bill Withers cover):

P.S. If you have time, listen to the recording of the 2007 Dumpstaphunk Tipitina’s performance, which I consider a passing of the torch from The Meters to Dumpstaphunk, as 3 of the 4 original Meters are on hand as guests.

Dr. Klaw’s epic funk throwdown with Ivan Neville & guests at Bear Creek Music Fest 2011

Dr. Klaw is a funk super unit: 2 parts Lettuce, 2 parts Dumpstaphunk. The other part is usually the soulful keys man extraordinaire Nigel Hall, but on this occasion Nigel was replaced by Sir Ivan Neville since Nigel was out on the road making that big money with the Warren Haynes Band. (Although Nigel did get Warren to drop him off the next day so he could briefly rage Bear Creek with Eric Krasno’s Chapter 2 and Lettuce).

Anyway, Dr. Klaw mixed it up with several guests. They welcomed sit-ins by the Shady Horns (Sam Kininger and Ryan Zoidis) augmented by artist at large Jonathan Lloyd on trombone. Robert Walter snuck in on the organ a few times, and up-and-comer Jamie McLean added some very tasteful shredding guitar parts on several tunes. (Check Jamie out on these videos of the secret Tree House After Party Jam Session). It was also nice to hear Ivan Neville get down on a synthesizer, an instrument he doesn’t take on the road and you don’t hear him play very often.

By the time this performance ended at 3:30am Saturday morning our ears were exhausted by over 12 hours of literally non-stop funk, yet we had 2 more days of blissful aural delights forthcoming….

Dr. Klaw
November 11, 2011
Live Oak, FL @ Bear Creek Music Festival
(1) I Believe It
(2) The Same Thing [Sly Stone cover]
(2) The Lost Rager (w/ Jonathan Lloyd, Ryan Zoidis & Sam Kininger)

Dr. Klaw
November 11, 2011
Live Oak, FL @ Bear Creek Music Festival
(1) God Made Me Funky [Headhunters cover] (w/ Robert Walter, Jamie McLean, Jonathan Lloyd, Ryan Zoidis & Sam Kininger)
(2) Hercules [Aaron Neville cover] (w/ Nikki Glaspie, Robert Walter, Jamie McLean, Jonathan Lloyd, & Ryan Zoidis)
(3) Higher Ground [Stevie Wonder cover] (w/ Andrew Block, Jamie McLean & Sam Kininger)
(4) Beef (w/ Jamie McLean)

Dr. Klaw:
Nick “Dr. Klaw” Daniels III: bass, vocals
Ian Neville: guitar
Adam Deitch: drums
Eric Krasno: guitar
Ivan Neville: keys, vocals (replacing Nigel Hall)

VIDEO 1: Canon Vixia HF21 by RLBayers
VIDEO 2: Zoom Q3 by Adam Firtel of CHeeSeHeaDPRoDuCTioNS
AUDIO: Sony ECM-MS908C (front row on video camera) + LiveMusicNola‘s mix (32 channel multi-track using all channels from the stage + 2 rooms mics)

P.S. If these videos aren’t enough, check out more videos of Dr. Klaw on the Creole Queen Riverboat during Jazz Fest 2011.

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