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Louisiana

By Lisa Haley

Label: Rhythm Zone
Released: 2000

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Kevin Clark: New Orleans Trumpet

by Jim Santella
May 1, 2000

Whose New Orleans trumpet does the title of Kevin Clark’s recording indicate? Buddy Bolden? That one could be heard from miles away. Louis Armstrong? That one contained a tone and phrasing that influenced nearly everyone who followed. Louie Prima? Al Hirt? They brought the trad jazz trumpet sound to audiences all around the world. Preservation Hall? ...

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Various Artists: The Atlantic New Orleans Jazz Sessions

by C. Andrew Hovan
August 1, 1999

The traditional music of New Orleans has such a rich heritage and yet is so misunderstood and undervalued these days that its hard for me to convey in words just how important the music in this precious edition really is. The Ertegun Bothers, founders of the Atlantic label, were very fond of the traditional styles of ...

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Allen Toussaint & Friends: A New Orleans Christmas

by Jim Santella
October 1, 1998

The various artists that appear on this 1997 Christmas album make it a cross-genre collection of R&B, C&W, pop/rock, blues, and jazz items suitable for infusing that annual Christmas spirit. Lead vocalists for the lyric-oriented Yuletide favorites include Raymond Myles, Larry Hamilton, Tricia Boutte, Grace Darling, Wallace Johnson, and James Andrews. With Allen Toussaint’s spirited piano ...

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Astral Project: Elevado / New Orleans LA

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1998

There's an abundance of heat and creative energy flowing from the epicenter of Astral Project, a New Orleans-based quintet whose ethereal name belies its usual choice of straight-ahead bop-influenced Jazz with a Crescent City ambiance. While saxophonist Dagradi seems to be the main man, everyone in the ensemble has a well-defined role to play, and consummates ...

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Allen Toussaint and Friends: A New Orleans Christmas

by Robert Spencer
August 1, 1998

Allen Toussaint appears on piano and / or keyboards on ten of these thirteen tracks, which are a good representative sampler of the current New Orleans sound. If that doesn't mean anything to you, think of “The Man who Sang with Linda Ronstadt" a few years back. He, of course, doesn't appear here, but the folks ...