You better second line! Jazz funeral in New Orleans for Juanita Brooks

Come pay your respects like we do down here in Nawlin's. Experience a real New Orleans second line jazz funeral for the lovely and talented Juanita Brooks.

[@bigkendallas]

people need to understand that this is meant to celebrate the life of the person - and also to a degree, celebrate them going to heaven.

[@jackpea7102]

How do you know the deceased believed in a heaven?

[@diehard2705]

Jack Pea most people living in the south do Also it’s the cultural origin of the funeral, so it doesn’t necessarily matter anymore whether or not they believed

[@coajrmusic]

As Wynton put it, we're sorry to see you go (intro), but we're sure glad you were here! (outro)

[@maxfrankow1238]

The way funerals should be; solemn, yet celebrating the human souls entrance to heaven.

[@PatsBooks]

+Max Frankow That's just your point of view. I don't think funerals have to be solemn. These are African traditions, and most Africans cultures are not dull.

[@magnumxlpi]

+PatsBooks Where in Africa?

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

PatsBooks that's what I was wondering, if this is some kind of Catholic tradition or if it comes from some other culture (Native Americans or Africans)

[@axollot]

NOLA is an old port city that brought it all to the shores. It's an amalgamation. Of French, African, Native, and islander-Caribbean too!

[@tracieh215]

Did you see the second part?

[@CarlHamilton1914]

What a beautiful tradition. As a musician, it's really great to see the true meaning of 2nd line

[@danielappleton153]

Now THIS is a funeral ! 1st the music is somber & stately, then proper dance music ! This is the way I'd like to be sent out.

[@TheDreserDeviant69]

Maaaaaan death ain`t death in New Orleans. Love your culture.Much love from SERBIA

[@juswavvy9634]

Im not from new orleans but this is how i want my homegoing to be dont cry for me celebrate my life smile have rap music have drinks have weed remember the good times

[@MegaBaris1986]

Okra, not sure if u are gonna understand my english, but the two ladies meaning in the second line: the first one, old and carrying a closed umbrella means the deceased Juanita, her life gone. The second one with the open umbrella mean her life, her achievements, her fullfilled goals. Both are dancing something that u can see, steps to side, sometimes advancing, sometimes turning back and they mean life, advances, setbacks, returns. the golden colors are mind powers and black mourning powers.

[@runningwild1055]

Thank you for that explanation. I knew their actions all meant something but never knew their meanings until you just explained them. Thanks again.

[@juliemarinescu2816]

I thought the umbrella was a symbol? The white rich could afford to shade themselves from the hot sun, the slaves could not. Therefore it symbolises they will have in death what they couldn't have in life? Heard it on the radio recently. Maybe it's wrong?

[@runningwild1055]

@@juliemarinescu2816 Thanks

[@goldie5111]

​@@runningwild1055 Thanks so much for that explanation.

[@MarcDoonan]

Merci beaucoup pour le schooling! A bientôt j'ai mon budget, mais je suis prêt à vivre éternellement alors quand je viens, la fête commence mais je n'ai aucune idée quand la finir...❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊

[@crcanassr]

There is no city like Nawlins, full of music, traditions, good food, and happy people.

[@Whoisdringo]

There's America...then there's New Orleans nothing like it Chicagoan and I love NoLa

[@annah.104]

Keep her near and dear bebes.

[@davidrea6310]

It’s the way the march begins very somber, and by the time you get to the grave, it’s completely joyous.

[@fflubadubb]

My 2 sons took me to New Orleans last year on a bucket trip .I belong there, I freaking love this !!

[@GeorgiaHallmark]

Wouldn't we all feel so much better about goin' if we knew we had this waintin' for us?

[@danielappleton153]

Damn straight ! I want to be sent off like this. I'll put it in my will.

[@johnnypullstrongg]

@@danielappleton153 same heree

[@yungcris5211]

I’m gonna have a second line savings account specifically dedicated towards doing this shit, this shit is incredible I love it

[@rootsm3]

I love how they celebrate life down in NOLA. Always a longtime admirer from up North

[@anthonylee9015]

Only n new Orleans i love it. That is one of a kind and please keep it up. I wish Memphis had this type of homegoing

[@ReclaimingMyChillTime]

I never had any clue of what this all was about. It's wonderful and tells such a beautiful story about the life and times of someone dear to many. I feel really privileged to see this and understand it now. Thank you for sharing.

[@anthonymartino3014]

This is true America. They got. They understand. My hat off. Head bow. God it is awesome

[@joangarciaalsina7918]

God bless America!

[@agoldberg2001]

Agree 100%

[@agoldberg2001]

Yes, sirie!

[@MystiKal_Raven]

Rest in Power, Juanita. I never knew you but I see you were/are so loved.

[@cjbcross]

Love you NOLA! No place better. Miss you much!

[@washingtongeraldodeoliveir8338]

When I die, I want a funeral like this. Greetings from Brazil.

[@calvinhobbes5686]

God, I loved the years I lived here! Makin’ groceries at Schweggman’s, dahlin’! Oyster po’boys from the K & B grille! The Roosevelt Hotel hallway at Christmas! Maison Blanche on Canal. Thibodeaux’s music club. Dooky Chase. We lived in the Fobourge Marigny, across Elysian Fields. Scattered friend”s ashes in the neutral ground. Yep, the Desire Projects, if you can handle it. NOLA will never die. Unique in the world!

[@kweninc]

For those that dont Know this is MR. Magic's(RIP) of No Limit Records mother...

[@boogiej2313]

Now this is how it is done!! How it should be done. Love it.

[@geezerdombroadcast]

What a beautiful tribute, and sendoff for someone you love. Tears, and sadness at loosing a friend will come in the dark, but for now be happy and remember the good times. Always loved this tradition. They must have loved Juanita very much?

[@amd77j]

A beautiful cultural expression of love and respect.

[@JSTX9216]

what a send off, just a fantastic thing. This is how a funeral is done right, good music and good folks celebrating in the streets.

[@lee_akatsuki]

i'm crying this is so sad but beautiful.. the music really deep and touching

[@1blastman]

I hope that UNCLE LIONEL gets the biggest and best second line ever! Rest in Peace, Lionel. You are missed by all of New Orleans and those who love our city.

[@tupd]

I have never seen such a celebration of life. Juanita, I never 'met' you but somehow I know stumbling across this video is no accident. Many people say they believe that death is a transtion to a better place tongue in cheek. Here not only can I feel that understanding but see its translation. While one may have passed it is ever clear that her energy lives through so much more. In death her spirit is magnified. We truly are all one. Thank you Juanita for reminding me =)

[@oneiro2274]

Such a beautiful way to celebrate someone, like they're walking with you ❤️

[@leegroce7566]

Beautiful, I would love to go out like this, just awesome. Thanks.. Peace

[@spainyo]

Ahhhh how I love being African American. Despite what liars tell us on wiki or other sources. The culture here in the NO, outside of the broken french we speak has nothing to do with the french europeans. We created this culture from our african roots. Go to Senegal and try their djolof and okra stew. AA's all over the country have elaborate home goings, not just here in new orleans. This is just the AA way of life...

[@peachesandpoets]

Yes!

[@carolcheny]

White people stole this music; made it high brows and looked down on, and worse, exclude, trad jazz. It's a damn shame.

[@michaelwarden9391]

Is you black, honey ?

[@MansaMusa-v5q]

Don’t forget about your Geechee/Gullah cousins in Charleston, SC

[@gaymerbrando]

@@carolcheny everything isn't about race, and whites didnt "steal" it, music is a beautiful gift that transcends race and should be shared

[@WalterGross-c7s]

great music. great tradition.

[@etmeyutub]

Best Video on you tube of a Jazz Funeral , thank you bud!

[@sabrinawalberer2591]

simply awesome

[@PlanetOnePosse]

Great video! You captured this really well.

[@jeffallcock4561]

Now that's the way to go out.

[@harrycom99]

I want that send off, fantastic, also very moving..... celebrations. great jazz

[@guacayabistreaux]

love my city :-) happy no matter what

[@jacobk9322]

Beautiful way to celebrate our departed going home.

[@ewilliams8099]

I love this.

[@Znay1]

I LOVE THIS Celebrating LlFE like Only like Naw Orleans Does So Well.....

[@streetcarjay]

This is how a funeral should be. No sadness. A real celebration of life. New Orleans really know what it's like to celebrate life.

[@adaw2d3222]

Must be the best tradition of the world!

[@MillerMeteor74]

I don't know who Juanita Brooks was (without looking it up of course) but I always enjoy listening to and watching these. Wonderful.

[@raymondweaver8526]

I haven't played in years, never was great, but bury me with my horn

[@normantrombon]

raymond weaver ...hell, no! Not while there's some child out there who wants to play, but can't afford a horn. Nobody's gonna hear it from six feet under! Give all a' mines to some deserving kids when I go. There's three trombones and a baritone horn, right there.

[@raymondweaver8526]

Better Idea norman

[@raymondweaver8526]

Already passed my horn to my daughter.

[@AbdurRahma2024]

nothing more beautiful than Culture...RIP!...

[@crcanassr]

Soul, only in New Owlins!!

[@dimitricprice2689]

What's the name of that mix with second line band? One night I was at a club in Houston and the DJ played it. It had a remix to it. Anyone know?

[@kevp9601]

We Don't Celebrate Your Death, We Celebrate Your Life.

[@sliphorns]

That's what I call music..............

[@toReasonWhy]

@Monke96ify The second line is the people who dance or play music but were not hired to do so in the first place... the ones who join in on the jazz march without being paid. The second line, after the planned, hired first line. By this point in time it's often used to mean any people who dance around any jazz parade/funeral.

[@eyezsosexi]

my condolensces for this loss....

[@aitvabingdonindependent9949]

Awesome, so much respect so much ❤

[@WILLIAMCHANEL]

A beautiful tribute.

[@triptoheaveandho]

i love the ladies doing the traditional walk

[@cshel37]

This is so beautiful

[@whitesky18]

Great job, Dave!

[@kagyu1]

That is beautiful...

[@mrg_3x391]

Righteous send off ❤️

[@kookydave]

it's a celebration that takes place after a person's funeral to send off the departed with a party to celebrate their glorious life. going out in style. having people remember the good times...

[@arturolpc3593]

Which is the second song

[@Krayziie]

bro my music teacher showed us this me and my friend were genuinely tweakin 😭

[@carloselsenior]

soooooooooooo awesome

[@talonmckinney3119]

What is the name of the 2nd song?

[@sethmouton3827]

Don't be sad they are gone be happy they were here

[@christopherfisher6293]

A full life well lived!!😇😇😇

[@doogiehowser78]

wow this is a beautiful send off

[@dawnye1]

Tradition!!!

[@vroman58]

I wonder where this tradition comes from? My family is from Mexico and they do this over there too. The band or "tambora" will follow the funeral procession through the streets to the cemetery. What Louisiana and New Orleans specifically share in common with Mexico is Spain. A lot of my customs and traditions are Spanish I wonder if this is one of them? This is why I love New Orleans so much cause I already understand them and know them.

[@bxox]

Jesus Christ...I hope I effect this many people positively where they come out in drives to celebrate my life. Must have been a real special lady. Rip

[@troythibodeaux362]

R.I.P. Juanita. Love Capt. Eick and Troy.

[@CatalinaGiuffra]

Great! ☺

[@devinwilliams3317]

RIP Juanita🙏🏾

[@parnell281]

R I P ms brooks my old friends rember tipatines and wwoz raido station RIP now in pontiac mi i do stand up undre the name New Orleans or N.O never forgotten my name is Parnell Richardson from uptown new orlean

[@lordkoos]

I love New Orleans

[@stephr9859]

NOLA one of a kind world Jewel💜

[@Detdoncarter]

James Bond brought me here

[@1937Me1]

Calvin Booker which James Bond movie?

[@abigailcarroll6982]

@@1937Me1 Live and Let Die!

[@Bob1Mack]

@nolakev17 In part, ( I THINK) this goes back to the British army tradition of slow march to the graveyard, quick march back. ISTR some statement by an old timer that there were a set of slow songs before the interment (Didn't He Ramble was one?) followed by marches on the way back. We did this after the funeral of a woman that we sorely miss, and (even in a very white, northern, Canadian church!) emotionally it just feels right.

[@QueenetBowie]

Thank you Mr. Johnson! I'm glad to see you're doing well and that Gout didn't kill you like it says it did in that wikipedia article!

[@ginogepi254]

Bravi ,mi piace...il vero modo di accompagnare al cimitero la persona a cui si e' voluto bene....senza piagnistei....

[@alecleo3434]

This reminds me of AHS Coven. A scene between Misty Day & Madison.

[@nerysghemor5781]

When I saw the “coffin dance meme” with the pallbearers from Ghana I could not help but wonder if the NOLA tradition has roots in West Africa at all? 🙂 Both traditions are amazing.

[@juswavvy9634]

Alot of people enslaved were from west africa soo yes alot of traditions black americans unknowingly do come from countries within west africa

[@The7SorrowsBotanica]

oh man this left me in tears.. this is how I wanna get married.. and how I wanna go out with a bang!

[@mastered38]

What is the first music ? (Of the intro ?)

[@Tbro13oo]

....Promise you, the video doesn't hurt any. You get it that this was Real.

[@screamhop]

when i die you better second line. amen.

[@williamschlenger1518]

This is the way to go.

[@shakazulu4987]

I love my city sadly, its culture is being taken from us and we didn't even see it coming, the gentrification is so real and blacks are being moved to the back just as in the other largely black populated urban cities in america. and when the black people leave new orleans the culture is a wrap. smh

[@yuwonder80]

Fight back.... Fight like hell....

[@CreativeLea]

Death is to be celebrated and this is beautiful. Why can't all send offs be like this

[@doctorj2u2]

I consider them the "grand marshalls" of the parade. They are not relatives. They are part of the band - Social Aid and Pleasure Club as best I know.

[@eduardocosta2030]

beatiful

[@TheWarrior831]

@Ninevah77 Sweet!! thanks i would really appreciate it. i am doing my architectural thesis project in new orleans and i would like to translate this behavior into architecture. i know what you mean about it being kinda kreepy though. lol. i am really excited to go there in 5 weeks.

[@brandonhamilton5208]

RIP DR. JOHN and Jaunita Brooks

[@ohsheela6297]

Very Beautiful 🙌🏽🥀 Why the umbrellas? Is there a meaning behind, I'm just asking. I've seen them ☔️ or shine💜

[@tracieh215]

They're parasols.

[@jackpea7102]

I think there is a West African origin. Umbrellas were a thing and still is some places.

[@Joygirl827]

@Erin-Shhmerin Hi it is and African tradition the culture here the women welcomed the return of the men back to the village

[@azizip171]

@ohsheela6297, there's lots of history of umbrellas being symbols of wealth ,royalty, authority, and status. Click pancocojams.blogspot.com/2020/02/videos-of-ghanaians-holding-large.html for my pancocojams post entitled " Videos Of Ghanaians Holding Large Parasols During Festivals & Videos Of New Orleans' Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs Carrying Decorated Parasols". That is Part 2 of that series. Part 1 has excepts from online articles about the history of umbrellas (parasols) in Egypt, Iraq, china, Burma, Greece, and other European nations.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

I presume the 'doctorate' is an honorary one? Also, I like the way in which the gentleman with the lilac umbrella is phased by the task of furling it. (There must be a tube video about that, somewhere!) A class act, all ways around.

[@peachesandpoets]

Why do you assume that?

[@TheWarrior831]

who are the two ladies in front (are they part of the band enseble) and why do they keep posing like that? i am intrigued by this activity.

[@raymondweaver8526]

Respect

[@fabiolspadilha]

acho muito legal esse tipo de funeral, isso sim é morrer com classe....

[@jodierichardson4308]

When was this