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“Chororo” was brought in by Matt Schreiber who recently moved with his wife to New Orleans from Portland Maine to fill Panorama’s accordion chair.

This song ranked number one on the Yugoslav folk music chart for the year 1969 and Matt learned it in 2011 on a visit to Serbia from a young accordionist named Ljuba Petrovic. Ljuba is the great nephew of the late accordionist Duško Petrovic who, born into a family of famous musicians in the Romani community of Grabovica, wrote and recorded the original hit.

The title means “Orphan” in the Romanes language. Although we bring it to you as an instrumental, the original lyric is the lament of an orphan boy missing his parents.

On this recording we pared down the band to feature Matt and his accordion. Playing music of the Roma people demands a lifetime of study and Matt has traveled to Western Serbia for that purpose on several occasions. His delivery of the line, it’s ornamentation and that special swing of the eighth-note reflects his love and study of and his devotion to this music.

After a long association with Panorama in various capacities, this is Mark Rubin’s first recording with Panorama Jazz Band. You can hear him playing baritone horn on Panorama *Brass* Band’s CD, “17 Days” (2011) and he produced the jazz band’s second album, “Panoramaland” (2005). Mark also recently immigrated to New Orleans, a cultural refugee from Austin Texas, the self-proclaimed “Live Music Capital of the World.”

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from Best of the Good (1st compilation from our "Good Music For You" series), released April 1, 2016
Recorded April 7th, 2014 @ Gasa Gasa, New Orleans, LA.
Released June 1, 2014

Ben Schenck – Clarinet
Matt Schreiber – Accordion
Patrick Mackey – Tenor Banjo
Mark Rubin – Tuba
Doug Garrison – Drums

Session engineered by Mike Seaman
Track mixed by Bill Deputy
Thanks to Michael Schweppe for helping out in the studio

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Panorama Jazz Band / Panorama Brass Band - New Orleans New Orleans, Louisiana

"New Orleans' genre fluid jazz band"

The Panorama Jazz Band and the Panorama Brass Band have been working steadily in New Orleans and beyond since 1995. Many hundreds of nightclub gigs, festivals, weddings, crawfish boils and Mardi Gras parades have added to this community of musicians' collective experience, all of which they bring to each of their recordings. ... more

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