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...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
Sing Me Back Home
Burgundy
A bevy of key players with Crescent City connections band together here as the New Orleans Social Club in supporting a string of special guests on this celebratory CD. Recorded in one week last October in Austin, the core group of drummer Raymond Weber...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
After the Rain
Rounder
Recorded at Dockside Studios in rural Maurice, La., just a couple of months after Hurricane Katrina wiped out her New Orleans home and her popular Lion’s Den Lounge, this cathartic comeback album showcases the Crescent City soul queen at the peak of her...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
A Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane Relief
Rounder
This post-Katrina compilation contains several essential New Orleans tracks from Rounder’s extensive catalog dating back 25 years. Included here are such classic cuts as the Dirty Dozen Brass Band’s “Mardi Gras in New Orleans,” Eddie Bo’s “Check Mr. Popeye...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
I Believe to My Soul
Rhino
For his follow-up to 2002’s Grammy-winning album for Solomon Burke, Don’t Give Up on Me, producer Joe Henry gathered together three soul-music icons in Ann Peebles, Billy Preston, and Mavis Staples and two New Orleans legends in Irma Thomas and Allen Toussaint...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
Our New Orleans
Nonesuch Records
Recorded in New York, Memphis, Houston and Maurice, La., in the two months following Hurricane Katrina, this benefit album documents some of New Orleans’ living treasures expressing their feelings in song for their beloved hometown. Allen Toussaint opens...
June 2006 By Bill Milkowski
VOW: Voice of the Wetlands
Rykodisc
In January 2005 Louisiana blues guitarist Tab Benoit gathered an all-star crew of New Orleans’ finest, including Dr. John, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, George Porter Jr. and drummer Johnny Vidacovich, for a session at Piety Studios...
