Description
Release Date: 1990
Label: Arhoolie Records
Track List
Kid Thomas Valentine & His Creole
Jazz Band
1. Panama
2. Just a Closer Walk with Thee
Billie & DeDe Pierce
3. Mama Don’t Allow
4. Going Back to Florida
5. Eh La Bas
6. Gulf Coast Blues
The New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra
7. Creole Belles
8. Purple Rose of Cairo
9. War Clouds
10. The Entertainer
Punch Miller’s New Orleans Band
II. Shake It and Break It
George Lewis with George Guesnon’s
Stompers
12. Savoy Blues
Kid Howard’s La Vida Band
13. Nelly Gray (Kid Howard- vocal)
John Handy’s Louisiana Shakers
14. Hindustan
The Golden Age Jazz Band
15. Barbecue Bess (Pamela Polland- vocal)
16. Down in Hooky Tonk Town
Notes
This collection brings you some of the best
New Orleans jazz from both the past and
the present. The variety of sounds is
extraordinary ranging from the bluesy old
time piano and cornet duets of Billie and
DeDe Pierce to the joyful arrangements of
the New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra who
re-live the lilting rhythms of the turn of the
century ragtime era. You hear the powerful
improvised authentic ensemble sounds
of the Kid Thomas, George Lewis, Punch
Miller, and Kid Howard bands, the small
jazz ensemble of John Handy. the raunchy,
gutsy singing of Pamela Polland and the
delightful swing of the Golden Age Jazz
Band who carry on the New Orleans jazz
tradition on the West Coast.
