June 2006
Sing Me Back Home
The New Orleans Social Club
A bevy of key players with Crescent City connections band together...
Crescent City Sounds
June 2006 • By Bill Milkowski
The Joys of New Orleans
Good-time New Orleans jazz is served up by California native and flugelhornist Jackie Coon and a spirited crew of local New Orleans players, including cornetist Connie Jones, bassist John Loupe, sousaphone ace Matt Perrine and bass drummer Richard Taylor...
June 2006 • By Bill Milkowski
New Orleans Mardi Gras
Leisure Jazz
This project was started in October 2004 and was finally finished in August 2005, just a few days before Katrina devastated much of New Orleans. Essentially a collection of familiar tunes heard during Mardi Gras season dressed up in a new suit of clothes...
June 2006 • By Bill Milkowski
Right Place, Right Time
Hyena
Recorded at Tipitina’s in New Orleans during Mardi Gras 1989, Right Place, Right Time has the good Dr. John (aka Mac Rebennack) pulling out such crowd pleasers as “Junco Partner,” Earl King’s “Let the Good Times Roll,” Willie Dixon’s “Wang Dang Doodle” and...
June 2006 • By Bill Milkowski
Bywater Dance
Yellow Dog
A Piedmont-style finger-style virtuoso, Flower adds engaging, crystal clear vocals to the compelling mix on this encounter in May 2005 at Piety Street Studios with some of the Crescent City’s finest, including trumpeter Charlie Miller, pianist Jon Cleary...
More Crescent City Sounds
Sing Me Back Home
June 2006
After the Rain
Irma Thomas
Recorded at Dockside Studios in rural Maurice, La., just a couple...
June 2006
A Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane Relief
Various Artists
This post-Katrina compilation contains several essential New Orleans...
June 2006
I Believe to My Soul
Various Artists
For his follow-up to 2002’s Grammy-winning album for Solomon Burke...
June 2006
Our New Orleans
Various Artists
Recorded in New York, Memphis, Houston and Maurice, La., in the...
June 2006
VOW: Voice of the Wetlands
Various Artists
In January 2005 Louisiana blues guitarist Tab Benoit gathered...