This live band plays jazz funeral music at dixieland funerals in Hampshire.
This funeral band in Hampshire can play for any part of a funeral:-
Hampshire Jazz Funeral Band
Photo taken by
Martin Bennett 5 June 2014
This band can play live music for funerals to either, celebrate the life of your loved one or, to mark their passing with the music they enjoyed.
In New Orleans the jazz bands (or brass bands) are led by a Parade Marshal and play dirges on the way to the committal. On the way back they play cheerful uptempo music.
For funerals in the UK, most people ask the jazz band for happy music going to the interment and the procession is usually led by the Funeral Director
The usual tunes played are :-
These may be played as a traditional funeral dirge or, as up tempo happy music.
Funeral procession courtesy of Mr J Baxter
If you want a special tune if it is not already in their repertoire, this band will learn it for you.
This jazz band has played at many Hampshire funerals and understand that most funerals happen at short notice.
Contact this Hampshire jazz band for funerals
Acoustic Jass are happy to deal with either family members or the funeral director. Their experience enables this jazz band to offer suggestions that makes their part of the funeral run smoothly, you don't get a rehursal.
A Jazz Funeral, the funeral music is "The Old Rugged Cross"
Many people have been inspired to have a jazz funeral after watching the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" where a funeral procession appears with the parade band playing the spiritual "Just A Closer Walk With Thee" as a dirge, there is a fatal stabbing and they carried the body off to "Joe Avery's Piece" an up tempo parade tune.
Acoustic Jass has been asked to recreate this "but without the stabbing".
Acoustic Jass leads the procession to
the Cemetery in Portsmouth
Jazz Funeral the tune is "Lily of The Valley"
Courtesy of Mrs A Youé & John C Blanchard FCA
New Orleans Jazz Funeral at Highcliffe
Photograph Courtesy Bournemouth
Daily Echo.
Where this New Orleans Jazz Band has played at in Hampshire:-
Places this bands played live music:-
Hampshire (Hants) Berkshire Buckinghamshire Dorset East Sussex Gloucestershire Oxfordshire Somerset Surrey West Sussex Wiltshire
© M.P. Roberts-Jones