Description
Release Date: 1993
Label: Mardi Gras Records
Track List
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- What A Wonderful World
- Basin Street
- Dark Down Strutters Ball
- Monday’s Date
- Back O’ Town Blues
- Lord, Lord
- Canal Street Blues
- Mardi Gras In New Orleans
- Jesus Is On The Main Line
- Big Leg Woman
- Sleepy time Down South
Personnel
- Milton Batiste – trumpet, vocals
- Byron Bernard – clarinet, tenor sax, vocals
- Mervin Campbell – trumpet, vocals
- Tyrus Chapman – trombone
- Damion Francois – trombone, tuba
- Lumar LeBlanc – snare drums
- Derrick Moss – bass drum
- Greg Tardy – tenor sax
- Rev. Curtis Watson – trumpet
Review
More young traditional jazz and repertory groups are emerging, especially in the New Orleans area. This Crescent City ensemble, the Young Olympians, aren’t strictly a brass band but more of a complete traditional orchestra, doing everything from stomps to struts, marches, and spirituals. They’re mainly paying homage to Louis Armstrong on this 12-song set, although they also do excellent versions of Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin'” and King Oliver’s “Canal Street Blues.”
