{"id":2198760,"date":"2025-12-14T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2198760"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:38:26","slug":"funk-band-ghost-note-plays-new-orleans-jazz-blues-market-music-gambit-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/funk-band-ghost-note-plays-new-orleans-jazz-blues-market-music-gambit-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Funk band Ghost-Note plays New Orleans Jazz &#038; Blues Market | Music | Gambit Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music.<\/p>\n<p>Dirty.<\/p>\n<p>Gritty.<\/p>\n<p>Grimy.<\/p>\n<p>When done right, funk should make your <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@jafunk\/video\/7483905420218682646\" target=\"_blank\">face scrunch up<\/a>, your head nod and your body move in ways even you might not have expected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghost-Note - Bad Knees (Studio Session)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPC7qDWuK_k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>So when <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghost-note-official.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost-Note<\/a> was searching for a way to describe one of their new songs, drummer Robert \u201cSput\u201d Searight says, the band started searching for something that hadn\u2019t been used before.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were going back to the Parliament days, and we were talking about all of the symbolism of funk. People cover their nose. People would use phrases like \u2018stanky.\u2019 So we were trying to figure out words that hadn\u2019t been used in the groupings,\u201d Searight says. \u201cAnd we\u2019re such foodies. I thought \u2018mustard\u2019 and \u2018onions.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to imagine the smell of mustard and raw onions \u2014 and there it is, the stank face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMustard n\u2019Onions\u201d was a good name for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ghost-note.bandcamp.com\/track\/mustard-n-onions-feat-jay-jennings\" target=\"_blank\">the track<\/a>, and Ghost-Note decided to keep the title for its full-length album <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ghost-note.bandcamp.com\/album\/mustard-nonions\" target=\"_blank\">released in 2024<\/a>. The album was well-received last year, and it has helped drive the funk-jazz-hip-hop collective into a busy 2025 touring, including an appearance on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/17\/g-s1-81566\/ghost-note-tiny-desk-concert\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n<p>Ghost-Note makes a stop in New Orleans <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jazzandbluesmarket.com\/music-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">on Saturday, Dec. 20<\/a>, for two sets at the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/entertainment_life\/keith_spera\/new-orleans-jazz--blues-market-reborn-with-top-jazz-talent\/article_ec18e699-0b9c-4d00-8794-a1e9204554f1.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently re-engineered<\/a> New Orleans Jazz &amp; Blues Market. The band will play songs from \u201cMustard n\u2019Onions,\u201d and it\u2019s also the band\u2019s last show before the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have a Christmas funky good time,\u201d Searight says.<\/p>\n<p>Searight, who\u2019s also a keys player, co-founded <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ghost_note_official\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Ghost-Note<\/a> in 2014 with percussionist Nate Werth while the two were members of the jazz fusion band Snarky Puppy. The duo released an album, \u201cFortified,\u201d in 2015 largely made with guest musicians, but with 2018\u2019s \u201cSwagism,\u201d a more consistent band began to form with seasoned musicians who had played with Prince, Kendrick Lamar, Kirk Franklin, Erykah Badu and Herbie Hancock.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Searight and Werth, the fluid Ghost-Note lineup includes bassist MonoNeon, guitarist Peter Knudsen, saxophonists and flautists Sylvester Onyejiaka, Jonathan Mones and Mike Jelani Brooks, trombonist Dany Wytanis and keyboardists Dominique Xavier Taplin and Vaughn Henry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2833649193\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3017144409\/transparent=true\/\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The band started working on what would become <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ghost-note.bandcamp.com\/album\/mustard-nonions\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cMustard n\u2019Onions\u201d<\/a> in 2019 while touring off their \u201cSwagism\u201d release. Being on the road together helped the members steadily hone the Ghost-Note sound \u2014 an unstoppable groove and charismatic style \u2014 and every chance they could, the band would book studio time in different cities and record. The band ended up recording around 30 songs during that stretch before the pandemic hit in 2020, Searight says.<\/p>\n<p>Touring \u201cled us into the direction, in my opinion, of where I thought we needed to go, and the music just evolved in the way that encompassed the band we had on the road,\u201d Searight says. \u201cWhen we got to \u2018Mustard n\u2019Onions,\u2019 we knew our sound. We knew our personalities. It was a fun record to do because we were all excited about this new sound we discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sense of fun is all over \u201cMustard n\u2019Onions,\u201d which clocks in at 80 minutes, as well as in the band\u2019s Tiny Desk appearance. There\u2019s also a lot of joy on the album \u2014 although, for Searight, \u201cmaturity\u201d is more the word he associates with this album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we kind grew up on this record,\u201d he says. \u201cThe word \u2018joy\u2019 is fitting as well because we definitely play with joy. But I don\u2019t think that would be a new addition to it. I think that\u2019s one of the things our fanbase has always been mesmerized by: our sense of joy when we\u2019re playing with each other on stage, where we\u2019re supporting one another in a way that most bands don\u2019t let the audience in on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Tickets to the Dec. 20 shows start at $25.30 via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/jazzandbluesmarket.com\/music-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">jazzandbluesmarket.com<\/a>. Find Ghost-Note at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghost-note-official.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ghost-note-official.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-article  subscriber-hide tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-article tnt-inline-relation-sibling tnt-inline-presentation-summary tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<article id=\"card-summary-898f9f8a-83d5-41f4-adde-48b2ce8b1a35\" class=\"tnt-asset-type-article clearfix card summary has-image  letterbox-style-default  tnt-section-gambit tnt-sub-section-music\">\n<div class=\"card-container\">\n<div class=\"card-body\">\n<div class=\"card-lead\">\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">Keep the tree up for Mardi Gras.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nola.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of words to describe good funk music. 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