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Joseph Frank Lastie Jr. (Born 28 August 1958, New Orleans) is an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Biography
[edit]Born into a family of musicians, Joe Lastie started playing drums at the age of eight. Influenced by his grandparent, Frank Lastie who was the first to play drums in church in New Orleans[1]. His uncle Walter Popee[2] was a drummer for Fats Domino. Lastie recalls musical evenings at home in his youth attended by prominent musicians such as Ornette Coleman, Professor Longhair and James Booker [3]. His parents moved to New York in 1969[4] where he attended drum classes with Clyde Harris but he returned to New Orleans captivated by the music of his hometown,[5] studied with Willie Metclaf at the Dryades Street YMCA alongside classmates Brandford and Winton Marsallis[6]
He's been a member of "Preservation Hall Jazz Band" for more than thirty years.[7]
He has recorded two albums as a bandleader
Solo discography
[edit]2008- "Joe Lastie Jr and The Lastie Family Gospel", on this album he revisits the tradition of the hymn.
2017- “Jazz Corner Of The World” with his band, Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound. This album features his original song "New Orleans In Me"
- In The Sweet Bye And Bye
- Because Of You
- Shake That Thing
- Songs Of New Orleans
- The Hurricane Sessions
- New Orleans Preservation Vol. 1
- American Legacies
- That's It
References
[edit]- ^ "The Jazz Foundation of America presents… Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound". New Orleans Jazz Museum. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "Walter "Popee" Lastie", Wikipedia, 2024-07-23, retrieved 2024-08-09
- ^ "The Legendary Lasties". WWNO. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "The Jazz Foundation of America presents… Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound". New Orleans Jazz Museum. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "The Legendary Lasties". WWNO. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "The Jazz Foundation of America presents… Joe Lastie's New Orleans Sound". New Orleans Jazz Museum. 2024-02-14. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "Meet the Collective: Joe Lastie, Jr". Preservation Hall Blog. 2020-02-29. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
- ^ "Preservation Hall Jazz Band Songs, Albums, Rev..." AllMusic. Retrieved 2024-08-09.