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Traditional Jazz From New Orleans (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

Traditional Jazz From New Orleans (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

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New Orleans traditional jazz has always lived in the spaces between notation and memory, passed down through the brass bands, dance halls, and Sunday sessions that shaped American music at its roots. Frank Demond's journey from Los Angeles outsider to Preservation Hall insider mirrors the way this music has always drawn believers into its orbit, converting listeners into participants. What Smoky Mary documented across those fourteen records was a living tradition, captured just as the generation that carried it was passing the torch.


From the late 1960s into the mid-1980s a New Orleans-based record label, the Smoky Mary Phonograph Company, released fourteen LPs by some of the city's most revered and respected elder jazz musicians. The labels's owner, trombonist Frank Demond, produced Smoky Mary's sessions and often played on them, including many of the songs anthologized here on Traditional Jazz From New Orleans. A native of Los Angeles, Demond fell love with the Crescent City trad sound after hearing the Preservation Hall Band perform in California. That transformative moment inspired Demond to move to New Orleans, sit in with the band, and eventually join it. Smoky Mary refers to a nineteenth-century train which many musicians rode between gigs in downtown New Orleans, bythe Mississippi River, and. Dome five niles away, in Milneburg on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Demond focused on recording such venerable veterans as singing pianist Sweet Emma Barrett, trumpeter Percy Humphrey and his clarinetist brother Willie Humphrey, trumpeter Kid Thomas Valentine, trombonist Jim [Big Jim?] Robinson, and a host of their colleagues.


Tracklist

1. Whenever You're Lonesome
2. Blues in Algiers
3. Kid Thomas Blues
4. Albert's Blues/Bucket's Got A Hole In It
5. Blues For Emma
6. Girl of My Dreams
7. After You've Gone/Basin Street Blues
8. How Long Blues
9. When You're Smiling
10. Big Butter and Egg Man
11. Little Liza Jane
12. Shake It and Break It
13. Bogalusa Strut
14. Willie's Cabbage Song
15. Bill Bailey
16. Eh La Bas
17. Just A Little While To Stay Here
18. Just A Closer Walk With Thee

UPC: 096094200419
Label: Mardi Gras Records
Release Date: 7.10.26
Format: LP Vinyl

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