The Gentlemen’s Weekend pt. 1 – an Introduction

Turn it up, not too loudly, let it marinate. Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s Preservation, a benefit album, like so many others released since the storm, sets the mood perfectly for the run-up to this weekend… for the third year in a row, two friends and I will make our annual fall pilgrimage to the Crescent City, dedicating ourselves fully to the morally bankrupt yet artful craft of Conspicuous Decadence. 

 

From the author of Just One Night… “I've been having a linen suit custom made by a sixth generation New Orleans tailor.  It's taken a year.  Every stitch is specially intertwined with tiny strips of sugar cane and Anders Osborne's guitar strings as well as hairs from Manning family members.  It then was hung up in the kitchen at Galatoire's for three months to age.  I'll pick it up Saturday while we're there.”

Too bad he can’t wear it until Memorial Day. Though tomorrow night we’ll be at the corner of Bourbon and Bienville, enjoying our personal cocktail buffet at the Absinthe House before decamping to Tipitina’s for Rebirth, where the generally accepted societal rules on what may or may not constitute appropriate behavior are routinely flaunted. More to come…  

Photo credits: Rebirth Brass Band, It's a Newman