Edition: Paperback Book & CD Package, Piano

Description: 36 Pages

Many people consider New Orleans the birthplace of jazz. After all Louis Armstrong was born and played there, as well as Joseph King Oliver, the Dodds Brothers, Sidney Bechet and a roster of players to fill not one but many all-star bands.

Louis Prima was a child of the Crescent City as is Harry Connick and Wynton Marsalis. The whole Marsalis clan was raised there, and are all acknowledged jazz masters, so its reputation as the seminal jazz town has long been acknowledged.

The creators assembled a band of New Orleans best players of our times, veterans all of many street parades and steamboat gigs, and asked them to put together a typical program of New Orleans Classics. Under the direction of Tim Laughlin, clarinetist supreme, and led by Connie Jones, Jr., one of the great hornmen of this city which boasts so many great players..they put together an album of must-hear, must-have songs that every traditional jazz player cherishes.

Includes newly engraved solo charts, with additional sample piano choruses, printed on acid-free, ivory paper; and two compact discs featuring complete versions of each tune, plus a recording of the accompaniments minus the soloist. Also includes slow-tempo versions of most up-tempo pieces for practice purposes.

Fidgety Feet
Melrose, Walter and New Orleans Rhythm Kings (arr. Wilber, Bob) - Tin Roof Blues
Royal Garden Blues
Blue Orleans
Dumaine St. Breakdown
Savoy Blues
March of the Uncle Bubbys
Means to Miss New Orleans
Someday You'll Be Sorry
Bechet, Sidney - Quincy Street Stomp