Sugar Bowl Parade LP - Green Wave Brass Band

The 2022-2023 Green Wave Brass Band marked a new era of performance under the direction of Associate Director of Bands, Andrew Szypula, and Director of Bands at Homer Plessy Community School Treme, Andy Bower. Thanks to the generosity of Friends of the Band and participants in the 2023 Give Green campaign, the GWBB went into the studio to record an LP of traditional and modern New Orleans music.

The calfskin bass drum head featured in the thumbnail for this video was played in the Tulane University Marching Band by section leader Godfrey Hirsch in the 1932 Rose Bowl as the Tulane Green Wave faced the USC Trojans. Hirsch went on to join the band of the legendary New Orleans Clarinetist Pete Fountain, where he wrote the music for "Sugar Bowl Parade" to celebrate the iconic New Orleans collegiate bowl game. Hirsch kept this drum head in his family and upon Tulane's 2023 Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic victory over the USC Trojans his son, Leon Hirsch, decided it was time to return this amazing piece of history back to the Tulane Band. 

This recording is presented with extreme thanks to Leon Hirsch and Debby Hirsch Wood for their undying Green Wave spirit!

Track Listing:

Side A
1. Tulane University Fight Song (Maynard J. Klein)
2. Sugar Bowl Parade (Godfrey Hirsch)
3. Grazin' in the Grass (Philemon Hou)
4. Keep Your Head Up (Ben Jaffe

Side B:
5. Mardi Gras in New Orleans (Henry Roland Byrd, Theresa Terry)
6. Bourbon Street Parade (Paul Barbarin)
7. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Joe Zawinul)
8. Keep That Body Shaking/Li'l Liza Jane (Darryl Adams)

Green Wave Brass Band 

Cody Woods, Luanna Fajardo, Claire Reifschneider - Trumpet 
Kyle Peeples, Heather Penton, Samuel Tyree, Jared Kessler - Trombone
Willa Rudnick, David Hart IV, Damien Cameron - Saxophone
Sona Shirinian - Clarinet
Dakota Wilburn, Samuel Tyree - Sousaphone
Christopher Tamburin, William Weber, Erin Fawbush, Patrick Carter, AJ Fiedler - Percussion

Andrew Szypula - Director
Andy Bower - Director and Producer 

Recorded at Marigny Studios 
Engineered by Adam Keil Mixed and Mastered at Artisound Studios by Keenan McRae

Other Special Thanks to Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, Newcomb Music Department, Tulane Bands, Barry Spanier, Dylan Parrilla-Koester, Anna Wildes, Tyler Hawk, Michael Batt, all of our 2023 Give Green supporters, and the New Orleans musicians and culturebearers that keep this tradition alive.