[VIDEO] Ben Tucker Funeral Jazz March, Savannah, GA

Shawn-Laree and I are in Savannah for the high school graduation of her godson. I saw in the paper this morning that a jazz musician, Ben Tucker, had died and that the funeral was today.

Savannah Morning News Front Page, June 10, 2013 from Daniel X. O’Neil

We’re staying downtown, and after lunch we saw a crowd in a local square. We realized that it was the early stirrings of his New Orleans-style jazz march. So I hopped in the scrum to take pictures while S-L shot video. I spliced it together and here’s about four minutes of a real jazz man procession:

Ben Tucker Jazz Funeral March from Daniel X. O’Neil on Vimeo.


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