Description
Release Date: 2025
Label: Independent
Track List
- Oh Didn’t He Ramble
- Messin’ Around
- I Took My Little Daughter To The Zoo
- At A Georgia Camp Meeting
- Chicken Ain’t Nothin’ But A Bird
- Mamie Desdunes Blues
- Yearning
- Down Among The Sheltering Palms
- My Gal Sal
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- A Shanty In Old Shanty Town
- San
- Squeeze Me
- Salty Dog
- Tiger Rag
- Sweet Substitute
Personnel
John Joyce – upright bass, vocals
Hippolyte Fevre – trumpet, vocal track 16
Craig Flory – clarinet
Stephan Tenney – trombone, vocal track 10
Brett Gallo – drums
Hunter Burgamy – guitar and banjo, vocal track 7
Joplin Parnell- piano
Notes
Some record!
These guys go off like a five alarm gorilla!
Shattering the air with melody and enlivening the proceedings. They put on tap a mix of jazz and blues with a lively upbeat sound that thrills the dancers to their toes.JJ & The A-Oks are loved for their authentic live performances injecting the music with an infectious swing, expert horn work and vibrant vocal styles. Bassist and bandleader John Joyce is joined by an incredible cast of New Orleans musicians playing traditional jazz of the highest caliber.JJ is a pacesetter whose job it is to sort of feed the band musical nourishment. Spurring the soloist on chorus after chorus he simply and unerringly bridges progressions from one chorus to the next with a nonchalant assurance and a sense of joyous participation.
Effective like a blinding stab of brass or a sensuous slur by the reed section.”I got tomatoes big and fine, I got watermelon red to the rhine”
– Mr. Okra, New Orleans
These guys go off like a five alarm gorilla!
Shattering the air with melody and enlivening the proceedings. They put on tap a mix of jazz and blues with a lively upbeat sound that thrills the dancers to their toes.JJ & The A-Oks are loved for their authentic live performances injecting the music with an infectious swing, expert horn work and vibrant vocal styles. Bassist and bandleader John Joyce is joined by an incredible cast of New Orleans musicians playing traditional jazz of the highest caliber.JJ is a pacesetter whose job it is to sort of feed the band musical nourishment. Spurring the soloist on chorus after chorus he simply and unerringly bridges progressions from one chorus to the next with a nonchalant assurance and a sense of joyous participation.
Effective like a blinding stab of brass or a sensuous slur by the reed section.”I got tomatoes big and fine, I got watermelon red to the rhine”
– Mr. Okra, New Orleans
released October 31, 2025
