What a Find!
author: Gordon Lee
Here's a rare collection of 14 top artists playing various musical styles all with the great New Orleans flavor. Listen to Dennis Cavalier's Fess It Up, for example, and hear some fantastic piano rhythms. A first rate CD!
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Full of inspired playing this tribute cd reflects the versatility of the well th
author: Ruud Heijjer Heaven Magazine
Before Katrina hit New Orleans, many fled to Texas. The musicians
among them were taken on board by the Texan music family. As a
result, this CD contains sixteen tracks by fourteen acts, eight from
New Orleans and six from Texas. Although unknown, these artists have,
apart from much experience, talent too. Label owner/piano player John
Autin discovered and produced both new Orleanians Anders Osborne and
Theresa Andersson, whereas Rockin’ Jake has been a well-established
name in the Mississippi delta for ten years. Many others combine
playing for others with their own music, which is audibly more to
them than work.
Full of inspired playing this tribute cd reflects the versatility of
New Orleans well. In the opener Autin pairs bouncing piano funk to
his emotional impressions of the disaster and pulls you straight into
the French Quarter. After that B & The Buzz prove that old style jazz
still is exuberanty alive there. Then a tense songs follows that
breathes Warren Zevon’s spirit, but there is also swing, country
blues and heartfelt gospel. Unexpectedly modern influences are
present in Greg Finsley’s To Fall In Love, which is strongly
related to British eigthies band XTC , but there is zydeco too, Ken
Jameson’s languidly funking bolero with ditto horns and Southern
blues. With Dennis Cavalier the distance between Dallas and New
Orleans fades, both in his stylish but humoristic homage to Professor
Longhair and in the funking New Orleans Rising.
That way this CD becomes a real must, also because fifteen dollars
per copy will be donated to Tipitina’s Foundation, which supports
musicians financially.
(three and a half out of five stars)
Ruud Heijjer - www.popmagazineheaven.nl
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