Few music festivals are as rich, profound, and joyous as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now entering its 50th year. With 50 tracks recorded live, Jazz Fest captures the festival’s ecstatic spontaneity, which defines the essence and vitality of American popular music. Ever since its inception a half century ago, Jazz Fest has exuberantly expressed the unique confluence in New Orleans of Native American, African, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Asian communities. With essays and annotations by Keith Spera, Karen Celestan, Robert Cataliotti, Jeff Place, Rachel Lyons, and Jon Parel... [Read More]
There are as many flavours of jazz as there are pebbles on a beach, but the majority combine rhythmic invention with instrumental virtuosity to create a sound that can transport the listener to a different plane. Whether your ear is caught by the saxophone of Earl Bostic or Eddie Harris, the flute of Herbie Mann, Ray Charles' effervescent keyboards (he played sax too) or the music of Cuban born 'King of the Mambo' Perez Prado, whose 1958 US chart-topper 'Patricia' is familiar from countless movies and television ads, one thing is certain - the jazz instrumental still reigns supreme.
2007 vinyl release of this amazing collection from the Soul Jazz label, subtitled The Original Sound of Funk 1960-75. It's packed with 24 gems from the likes of The Meters, Eddie Bo, Professor Longhair, The Wild Magnolias, Huey 'Piano' Smith, Dr. John, Lee Dorsey, Mary Jane Hooper, Allen Toussaint and more. Includes informative 39 page booklet with pictures and the story of New Orleans funk and the artists involved. Soul Jazz
100% new product Andrea Mistretta has been a major influence on the popularity of Mardi Gras celebrations to other parts of the US and the rest of the world. Her Mardi Gras prints are the
Music Of New Orleans - Vol. 1-Music Of The Streets: Music Of Mardi Gras (CD NEW)Label: Folkways RecordsFormat: CD MODRelease Date: 01 Jan 2009No. of Discs: 1UPC: 093070246126Album Tracks1. Street Cries2. Let God's Moon Alone3.
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