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Climax Rag

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Climax Rag/ Yes Sir! That

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Percy Humphrey w/ the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag

Read "Climax Rag" reviewed by Derek Taylor


What’s not to love here? Six venerable patriarchs of classic New Orleans jazz reconvening for a rollicking trip down memory lane. As far as Hot Jazz goes it doesn’t get much more combustible than this. The roster reads like the roll call for a dream Dixieland band. The indefatigable Robinson, for years George Lewis’ right hand ...

Album

Climax Rag

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 1999

108

Article: Album Review

Percy Humphrey with the Crescent City Joymakers: Climax Rag

Read "Climax Rag" reviewed by Jack Bowers


They didn’t call trumpeter Humphrey’s New Orleans–based sextet the “Joymakers” for nothing. These gentlemen clearly had a lot of fun making music together. This session, recorded in 1965, is awash in foot–tapping trad Jazz from one end to the other. As such, the emphasis throughout is on interplay among the various members of the ensemble rather ...


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