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Jammin' New Orleans Style in the 50s

Label: Jazz Crusade
Released: 2001
Track listing: Royal Garden Blues; Bugle Boy March; Willie the Weeper; Savoy Blues; Bye & Bye; Runnin' Wild; Climax Rag; The Sheik of Araby; Maryland, My Maryland; Golden Leaf Strut; Fidgety Feet; Careless Love; Bill Bailey; High Society; Uptown Bumps; Wolverine Blues; Original Blues; A Closer Walk with Thee/The Saints Come Marching In

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Praying & Swaying - Vol. 1 "At the Cross"

Label: Jazz Crusade
Released: 2001
Track listing: Nobody's Fault But Mine*; 29th & Dearborn; I Shall Not Be Moved*; Saturday Night Function; Canal Street Blues; At the Cross; Fusty Bottom Blues; Medley: Bye & Bye/When the Saints Go Marching in*; Flee as a Bird to the Mountain; Lead Me Savior; Blues in the Night*; Bugle Call Rag; 29th & Dearborn

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Brain Carrick & His Algiers Stompers: Everywhere You Go

Read "Everywhere You Go" reviewed by Dave Nathan


English clarinetist Brian Carrick and his countrymen pay tribute to New Orleans jazz legend Kid Thomas Valentine by borrowing the name of Valentine's group, the Algiers Stompers for 70 minutes of traditional New Orleans jazz. Algiers, now absorbed into New Orleans, was once a separate city with its own tradition and Kid Thomas Valentine was an ...

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Kid Thomas Valentine: The Thomas Band at Moose Hall, 1968 Vol. 1

Read "The Thomas Band at Moose Hall, 1968 Vol. 1" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Kid Thomas was72 when he took his Algiers Band into Moose Hall in Stamford, CT. The performance was recorded but languished in the vaults of the Connecticut Jazz Club for more than 32 years. Shame on somebody. But happily Bill Bissonnette's enterprising Jazz Crusade label found them and this CD is the first of a multi ...

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Gregg Stafford & Dr. Michael White: Praying & Swaying - Vol. 1 "At the Cross"

Read "Praying & Swaying - Vol. 1 "At the Cross"" reviewed by Dave Nathan


The lines between blues, jazz and old time gospel sometimes get blurred when traditional jazz players get together. The three genres are honored on this meeting between Gregg Stafford and Dr. Michael White, both members of a generation when the traditional music no longer held the same place in the hearts and minds of jazz fans ...

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Pat Hawes: That Salty Dog

Read "That Salty Dog" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Unlike many of the traditional jazz revival bands focus on the New Orleans style, especially those located in Europe, Pat Hawes and his group explore traditional jazz from other jazz citadels, like Chicago. Thus there is a large tray of colors on this album not found on those that deal exclusively with just one style of ...

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Gregg Stafford/Brian Carrick: Streets of the City

Read "Streets of the City" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Big Bill Bissonnette's quest to keep the flame of New Orleans jazz burning bright with Jazz Crusade label continues. Not only is he successful in making this important music available, but he is equally successful in garnering some of the best players in the world to perform it. And “world" is what we're taking about here. ...

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George Lewis: Jammin' New Orleans Style in the 50s

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Bunk Johnson, the leader of the New Orleans traditional jazz revivalist movement passed away in 1949. With its leader gone along with many of the big bands and the emergence of bop, traditional jazz was pretty much hanging on by a thread and may have gone off the radar screen of the jazz loving public if ...

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Sammy Rimington & the Mouldy 5: Reed My Lips

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Jazz Crusade, as the name suggests, continues its quest to put to CD New Orleans jazz performed by a roster of memorable practitioners of this music, which is an important keystone of jazz. The title implies with the word return, that the Mouldy 5 was somewhere and is now back. And that's exactly the case. Big ...

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Dr. Michael White: In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds

Read "In a Tribute to Mr. Johnny Dodds" reviewed by Dave Nathan


Dr. Michael White is a professor of Spanish and Afro-American music at Xavier University. But his real job is working hard to make sure that the New Orleans jazz tradition stays alive and well through writings, lectures and performing. Selecting soul mate fellow clarinetist Johnny Dodds as the subject for this CD, White replicates tunes Dodds ...


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