Mardi Gras [Import] [Limited Edition]

Track Listings

1. Lookin' for a Reason

2. Take It Like a Friend

3. Need Someone to Hold

4. Tearin' Up the Country

5. Someday Never Comes

6. What Are You Gonna Do?

7. Sail Away

8. Hello Mary Lou

9. Door to Door

10. Sweet Hitch-Hiker

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese 20-bit K2 remastered reissue of 1972 album. Packaged in a gatefold miniature LP sleeve with original artwork. 10 tracks including the hits 'Someday Never Comes' & 'Hello Mary Lou'. Fantasy. 2002.

Mardi Gras, Music, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Country-Rock, Pop, Rock, Rock & Roll, Rock/Pop, Rockabilly, Roots Rock

The Best of Cajun: The Traditional Songs
Average customer rating:

Great CD

Great recording- super renditions-I wish I could find more CDs like this

Ou-ce Que Te Parti

Acadienne At Its Finest!

This collection of Cajun music is just too cool for words!!!

The Best of Cajun: The Traditional Songs
Waylon Thibodeaux
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Zydeco | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
Cajun & Creole | Cajun & Zydeco | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music
General | International | Styles | Music
Cajun & Zydeco | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music
North America | International | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Bayou Deluxe: The Best Of Michael Doucet & Beausoleil

Cajun Music: The Essential Collection

Zydeco's Greatest Hits

The Ultimate Collection

Cajun Heat Zydeco Beat

ASIN: B000005XFX
Release Date: 1995-04-16

Tracks:

Je Veux Me Marier
Grand Mamou
Chou-Pique Two Step
Bayou Teche
Paradin Two Step
Grande Texas
Madame Sosthene
Ou-Ce Que T'es Parti
Jolie Blonde
Lake Charles Two Step
Big Mamou

Customer Reviews:

Great CD.......2005-12-22

I just love this CD, especially song #8! I'd say this is the best Cajun CD I've heard yet. Would highly recommend it to anyone. It's at the top of my list!!

Great recording- super renditions-I wish I could find more CDs like this.......2005-10-14

This CD is simply a wonderful find.

Excellent recording, excellent renditions of traditional songs.

Like listening to E Power Biggs play Bach, Waylon Thibodeaux has captured something very special with this recording.

I'd love to see suggestions for similar albums- I've looked for a while but I keep coming back to this one.

Ou-ce Que Te Parti.......2005-10-07

This a song that is needed by the Westwego Senior Citizens. A small group visits the shut in and they requested this particular song. I would like to have a copy both in french and english?

Acadienne At Its Finest!.......2002-05-05

The songs on this album with the exception of Big Mamou are old beautiful traditional Cajun songs. Waylon does an excellent job at playing these songs and keeping them fairly authentic sounding. Waylon should be given a medal for preserving these old songs and giving them a modern-quality recording. Waylon does not exclude modern zydeco either in Big Mamou. This song will make you want to jump up and do the fais-do-do. If you dig Cajun music at all, this album is a must have.

This collection of Cajun music is just too cool for words!!!.......1999-07-14

Okay, okay, you haven't encountered much of Cajun music? Here's the place to start. Twelve catchy numbers, most with lyrics in Cajun French, brighten this fine record by Waylon Thibodeaux. They're lively, enjoyable, and make you want to dance or at least enjoy more whatever you might be doing while listening. Thibodeaux does the definitive "Jolie Blonde" in this CD, and has several great ones such as "Grand Texas," "Grand Mamou," "Je Veux le Marier," and "Paradis Two-step."

Tracks:

Jolie Blonde - Balfa Brothers
Two Step De Lacassine - Balfa Brothers
La Valse De Deux Families - Dewey Balfa
Hommage Aux Freres Balfa - Beausoleil
Pot-Pourri Cadjin - Beausoleil
Jambalaya - Douh Kershaw
Buck's Nouvelle Jole Blon - Buckwheat Zydeco
Zydeco Sont Pas Sale - Clifton Chenier
Two Steppin The Two Step - Rockin Sidney
Zydeco Gris Gris - Beausoleil
Joe Pitre - Zachary Richard
Jambalaya - Zachary Richard

Customer Reviews:

great collection.......2006-06-29

So glad I bought this! Great music, fun to listen to and exercise with.

Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite/Mississippi Suite

Average customer rating:

Favorite then and now!!!
Grand Canyon Suite Review
Makes you feel like you are there!
Musical interpretation
Great Kostelanetz, awful Bernstein

Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite/Mississippi Suite

Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

Classical Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Grofe: Death Valley Suite
Copland: Appalachian Spring/Fanfare For The Common Man/El Salón México/Danzón Cubano
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain
Copland: Rodeo/Billy The Kid
Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue/An American In Paris

ASIN: B0000025PE
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Grand Canyon Suite: I - Sunrise
Grand Canyon Suite: II - Painted Desert
Grand Canyon Suite: III - On The Trail
Grand Canyon Suite: IV - Sunset
Grand Canyon Suite: V - Cloudburst
Mississippi Suite: I - Father Of The Waters
Mississippi Suite: II - Huckleberry Finn
Mississippi Suite: III - Old Creole Days
Mississippi Suite: IV - Mardi Gras

Customer Reviews:

Favorite then and now!!!.......2007-06-11

When these recordings first came out I was too young to
have it on record, but later I had it on tape, and now
on CD. This is the best recording by far of these two works.
This recording I really love it. I remember as a teen in
the late 80's and early 90's comming home from school, how
I loved to listen to the "Grand Canyon Suite", how much
I like the "special effects" such as the "thunder storm" in the
last movement, and the "donkey" or "horse" steps as it would walk
through the desert. Grofe used such "special effects" I guess
to help us imagine better what he was trying to describe in his
music. The Mississippi Suite has always been a favorite too, with
its "Mardi Gras" finale, which depicts a carnival parade, so pupular
in the south as in many parts of the world. Kostalanetz, Bernstein
and the New Yorkers really put a "good show".

Grand Canyon Suite Review.......2007-01-13

While driving through the Painted Desert in Arizona on my way to NAU in Flagstaff I was listening to this CD and it just made the Painted Desert come alive. I could just picture each area of the Grand Canyon as the music came on. It was one of the most plesant drives I've taken in years. Also I was replacing a CD that had gotten stolen and I missed this mucic, so I ordered a replacement. I'm glad that I did. I danced to this mucis years ago at a ballet recital and the music had always remained with me. I really recommend playing this music as you pass through the Grand Canyon area but it's just as beautiful if you're sitting in your own living room or parlor listening to it.

Makes you feel like you are there!.......2007-01-10

I first had the Grand Canyon Suite conducted by Berstein as a vinyl recording. I missed it very much when I could no longer play it. I have two other conductors and orchestras doing Grand Canyon, but they are both lacking the expression in which this performance excels. I was thrilled to get this CD!! Berstein definitely understands the power of this great composition.

Kostelanetz does a great job with the Mississippi Suite. I have it on one other CD and, though that one is good, Kostelanetz brings a flavor to it that makes me think I am actually on the river. I was born in Memphis and go back to visit relatives frequently. The music and the flow and the majesty of the river is wonderfully depicted.

Musical interpretation.......2006-02-19

The Utah Orchestra plays with depth and interpretation of Grofe's music images of the Grand Canyon. Having hiked the Canyon myself as well as experienced the many moods, this recording evokes them very well

Great Kostelanetz, awful Bernstein.......2004-07-10

Given the fact that The Grand Canyon suite is a concert pops piece, it should be a piece of cake for Lenny to pull this off. Well, he can't, and it's terrible. The most famous movement, On The Trail, is lacking the excitement and spirit that this needs. His celeste solo is so over blown with extra accents and mannered phrasing, you realize just how self indulgent Bernstein is. Compare this to Stanley Black. His Grand Canyon is terrific. With Phase 4 engineering, great strings and plenty of spirit, he captures the mood of the piece with great verve. Skip the Bernstein tracks and just listen to Kostelanetz. The string sound he gets from the NYP is much better than Bernstein. It's hard to believe that it's the same orchestra. Even though this work is much shorter, Kostelanetz gives it his all. Daybreak is uplifting and majestic. Since this piece is rarely played, it's nice to have it on cd. Kostelanetz is the only version you'll need. Skip Bernstein and listen to Kostelanetz.

Average customer rating:

Almost perfect
so true
Lawdy This Is Good Music!
Excellent introduction to Dixieland Jazz Funeral.
You want an album of NoLa Funeral? This is the one!

Authentic New Orleans Jazz Funeral
Magnificent Seventh's Brass Band
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Traditional Jazz | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Marching Down Bourbon Street
New Orleans Funeral & Parade
Funeral for a Friend
The Best of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Songs of New Orleans

ASIN: B000005XE5
Release Date: 1994-11-05

Tracks:

Introductory Narration
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
Down By The Riverside
As I Lay My Burden Down
Introductory Narration
In The Sweet Bye And Bye
Lead Me Savior
Walk Through The Streets Of The City
Just A Closer Walk With Thee (Dirge)
Taps/Battle Hymn Of The Republic
Introductory Narration
Didn't He Ramble
When The Saints Go Marching In
Feel So Good

Customer Reviews:

Almost perfect.......2006-08-28

The music is beautiful and very impressive.
The lack of a consequent booklet is therefore even more damageable.
This is why the fifth star falls down.

so true.......2002-09-13

next best thing to standing on a street corner as they pass by

Lawdy This Is Good Music!.......2002-05-13

What can match the experience of sitting down at the Cafe du Monde to a plate of beingets lightly dusted with white powdered sugar and a cup of black, black coffee made with chicory?

New Orleans is a state of mind. And, part of that experience is honest to goodness, get down Dixie Land jazz.

This is a wonderful cd that brings a bit of New Orleans along with it.

There is only one small criticism. Between songs there is a narrator who explains the different parts of a jazz funeral. The description would have been better written on the cover.

But that is a minimal criticism. The music is wonderful. It makes feet tap. It plants tunes in the brain that the listner will hum for many days.

The Dixie Land jazz on this cd is loaded higher than a muffelleta. And the music isn't fattening!

Excellent introduction to Dixieland Jazz Funeral........1999-12-31

The soulful narration of Milton Batiste combines with the unique style of the Magnificent Seventh's Brass Band to provide the listener with a very enjoyable first-hand account of a typical New Orleans jazz funeral. While a couple of the songs drag on a little longer than perhaps they should, this 70+ minute CD ended before I was ready for it to. It contains an excellent rendition of Just a Closer Walk With Thee in a funeral-dirge style. I would highly recommend this CD to any fan of dixieland music!

You want an album of NoLa Funeral? This is the one!.......1998-09-04

Of all the brass bands, even the old ones by the "original cats", this collection compares favorably. This is one of the rare occasions where you say the band is both loose and tight. (That is a good thing, my friend).

It has three parts, "Wake Service (Gospel)", "Funeral Procession (Dirge)", and "Joyous Send Off (Second Line)".

Tracks:

Slow Roll It - The Love Doctor
Friday - Sir Charles Jones
Already Gone - La Keisha
She Only Wants To See Me On Friday - Mr. Zay
2 Birds - X-Man
Teddy Bear - Big Ike
Is Anybody Lonely? - Sir Charles Jones
Just Another Love Song - Sir Charles Jones
Pony Ride - Andre' Lee
Rockin' Slide - Stan Mosley
Waiting On You - Cicero Blake
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due - Tonya
You Said It, No I Didn't (Lies) - The Love Doctor
Hood Rat - Eric Perkins

Average customer rating:

"I Feel Like Bustin Loose"...Go-go fans, meet your cousins
tightness
Kickin' it live!

Ultimate Rebirth Brass Band
ReBirth Brass Band
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

This Is The Dirty Dozen Brass Band Collection
Feel Like Funkin' It Up
Throwback
Rebirth: Kickin' It Live
Funeral for a Friend

ASIN: B00022LJOM
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

(I Feel Like) Busting Loose
Do Whatcha Wanna
New Orleans Music
Carnival Time
Feel Like Funkin' It Up
Let's Do It Again
Cassanova
All Blues
I Ate Up The Apple Tree
Just The Two Of Us
Tornado Special/Ooh Nah Nay
Shotgun Joe
Let Me Do My Thing

Customer Reviews:

"I Feel Like Bustin Loose"...Go-go fans, meet your cousins.......2007-03-12

This CD is near and dear to my heart as a DC native who has a grandfather who hails from New Orleans. He took me to see Rebirth in New Orleans, and I've been a brass band junkie ever since. I'm a big fan of old school Dirty Dozen and Rebirth Brass Band. This compilation is a good way for those looking for an introduction to Rebirth to find out whether they prefer the jazz influenced, hip-hop, or trad sound of Rebirth.

I feel that Rebirth has three phases. First, they were kids from Treme trying to be like their heroes in bands like the Dirty Dozen. Early Rebirth is not really represented on this compilation and you're better off checking out the album "Here to Stay" if you want to hear that stuff. That's before they were with Rounder Records so I'm not suprised that it's not on the compilation. Second, they were the kings of New Orleans with Phil Frazier rocking the bottom on the tuba and Kermit Ruffins on the frontlines with a fat trumpet sound. "Do Whatcha Wanna" was a regional hit and it's on this compilation. Finally, Rebirth is kind of the old school hip-hop equivalent of the brass band movement. Tracks like "New Orleans Music" and the final track with "My Thing" represent Rebirth originals that have some hip-hop style chants in them.

Fans will like some of the cover tunes represented here. "Let's Do It Again" by the Staple Singers show their old school soul leanings and "Ate Up the Apple Tree" show New Orleans traditional sound. There's also excerpts from their monster 24 minute medley on their Live At the Maple Leaf LP. That's an album you need to hear in its entirety, though. For folks in the DC area, that's frequently available at the local library if you want to check out what they've been up to.

I'm really pleased to hear that Kermit Ruffins and the Rebirth linked up again on a new CD. Kermit left Rebirth a few years back to pursue more of a Louis Armstrong traditional sound. Hopefully, this new project means that the parting was amicable and Rebirth and Kermit can link up from time to time for positive projects.

Rebirth has done so much for New Orleans music, black music, jazz music, funk music, and just about any other kind of good music you can think of. It's a shame these brothers are underground.

For those who are Rebirth heads and already have a lot of their stuff, the cover of Bustin' Loose that opens the compilation is slammin'! I've always said that "Feel Like Funkin' It Up" is basically "Bustin' Loose" and they probably ought to give Chuck Brown from DC composer credit. Well, here they give the Godfather of Go-go his props and cover his tune straight up.

New Orleans brass bands and DC go-go need to get together now more than ever before with the way that DC gives New Orleans a raw shake on the Katrina stuff.

Please support this music and check this out....

4.5 stars

--SD

tightness.......2006-08-30

top-notch groove music. i had the pleasure of meeting them and seeing them live, cool guys and a great group that works as a unit.

Kickin' it live!.......2005-09-08

The Rebirth Brass Band has been funkin' it up for 20 years now, still looking young and still full of energy, turning every place they go into Mardi Gras for one night. This is a fresh new set of tracks recorded live in concert, which is the only way to hear Rebirth. Enjoy!

Average customer rating:

Great Dirty South Blues
great cd
Sir Charles Jones strikes a chord
best of best
On the real

Love Machine
Sir Charles Jones
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Styles | Music

Contemporary R&B | R&B | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Thank You for Holding On
Stand Up in It
Best Of Tyrone Davis
A Southern Soul Party
Changing the Game

ASIN: B00005UJDB
Release Date: 2002-01-01

Tracks:

Love Machine
Is There Anybody Lonely?
Friday
Just Can't Let Go
Let Me See You Move It
Tell Me How You Want It
Let's Get It On
For Better Or Worse
Stop Fooling Around
Just Like Fire
Friday - Club Mix
Friday - The Remix

Customer Reviews:

Great Dirty South Blues.......2006-04-28

Like other reviewers, if you are from the south and love southern R&B or blues - you will love Sir Charles Jones! I have all of his music. This particular CD is great! If you like him, you should also check out Mel Waiters!

great cd.......2005-04-04

Hey this is a great cd even if you r not a big blues fan u would like this cd. If you are from the south, this cd takes you to the friday night fish frys.

Sir Charles Jones strikes a chord.......2004-12-10

I first heard of Sir Charles about 2 years ago. Everybody in Memphis and Mississippi was talking about "Is Anybody Lonely". I got the album and fell in love with it. I've seen him in concert 3 times and he puts on an excellent show. The most amazing part is his age. Who would have thought a man so young could really sing the blues. The album is a masterpiece and I can't wait for the next one.

best of best.......2003-10-15

found this cd in memphis tn. several yrs ago...best soul music of decade as far as i am concerned..everyone that heard this cd wanted it..this is the best of Sir charles

On the real.......2003-04-24

Sir Charles is the best blues singer I heard. I went to one of his concert and let me tell you the brotha got skills. If you listen to his songs, you can relate to them. I know I can. I'm so happy to see somebody from Mississippi do something positive with his life, he not letting his talent go a waste, he using what God gave him. Sir Charles I hope him the best in his music. Just Keep God first and don't forget where you come from.

Average customer rating:

mardi gras in new orleans
So fun! The best compilation I've found
EXCELLENT!
THROW ME SOMETHING, MISTER!!!!
This is it!

Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

New Orleans Blues | Regional Blues | Blues | Styles | Music

Piano | Blues | Styles | Music

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

General | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music

Soul | Compilations | R&B | Styles | Music

General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music

1950s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music

General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

Traditional Blues | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music

General | R&B | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

New Orleans Party Classics
Mardi Gras Essentials
Mardi Gras Parade Music from New Orleans
The Wild Tchoupitoulas
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans

ASIN: B000005XDK
Release Date: 1995-01-20

Tracks:

Go To The Mardi Gras - Professor Longhair
Handa Wanda, Part 1 - Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias Maddi Gras Indian Band
Carnival Time - Al Johnson
Big Chief, Part 2 - Professor Longhair
Street Parade - Earl King
Second Line, Part 1 - Stop, Inc.
Mardi Gras Mambo - The Hawketts
New Suit - The Wild Magnolias
Big Chief, Part 1 - Professor Longhair
(Big Chief Like Plenty Of) Fire Water - The Wild Magnolias
Handa Wanda, Part 2 - Bo Dollis and The Wild Magnolias Maddi Gras Indian Band
Second Line, Part 2 - Stop, Inc.

Customer Reviews:

mardi gras in new orleans.......2007-02-11

always loved the black indians and now it is particularly poignant that the spirit is there but the physical environment is so damaged. This is a good sampling of the music.

So fun! The best compilation I've found.......2005-04-22

Bought the CD at the Mardi Gras museum in the Presbytere. It was playing in there. It's on my ipod now and I am giving the CD to my nephew and hoping his excellent high school marching or jazz band will try some of these. I have collected 9 other N.O. CDs and this is the most fun. Can't stop smiling when its playing.

EXCELLENT!.......2002-12-23

Great song selection and placement.
One problem, it's only 36 minutes long.

THROW ME SOMETHING, MISTER!!!!.......2002-02-12

I'm a New Orleans native, and this CD has the particular versions of these classics that everyone in New Orleans recognizes from the very first note. 'Big Chief, Part 2' is my all time favorite Mardi Gras song, and this is CD has my favorite recording of it. This is definitely THE CD to have if you want to get in the spirit.
If you're looking to find more New Orleans style music, let me suggest the songs 'It Ain't My Fault' and 'Do Whatcha Wanna' as recorded by the Rebirth Brass Band.

This is it!.......2001-01-18

This is it!--THE quintessential Mardi Gras collection. Here, you will find all of those tunes you are humming after every Mardi Gras parade. Other collections are good, but not as good. Start with this one and branch out, but definitely start with this one.

Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland: Al Hirt

Average customer rating:

One of the Greatest New Orleans, French Quarter, Mardi Gras-Styled Jazz CDs One is Likely to Ever Hear
Essential Dixieland

Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland: Al Hirt
Pete Fountain
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Jazz | Styles | Music

Traditional Jazz General | Traditional Jazz & Ragtime | Jazz | Styles | Music

New Orleans & Dixieland Jazz | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music

Dixieland | Jazz | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Super Jazz
Pete Fountain Presents the Best of Dixieland
The Best of Pete Fountain
Dixieland Classics, Vol. 1
Swingin' Blues

ASIN: B000056PQZ
Release Date: 2001-01-23

Tracks:

The Original Dixieland One-Step
Tin Roof Blues
Royal Garden Blues
Panama
Blue And Broken-Hearted
Wolverine Blues
Washington And Lee Swing
I'm Going Home
Jazz Me Blues
Night And Day
South Rampart Street Parade
Sugar

Customer Reviews:

One of the Greatest New Orleans, French Quarter, Mardi Gras-Styled Jazz CDs One is Likely to Ever Hear.......2007-01-02

This is a great CD of trumpeter Al Hirt's dixieland, Mardi Gras music. Al Hirt used to play at a club on Bourbon Street in New Orleans' French Quarter district, which I have only read about. If you're looking for French Quarter, dixie-style jazz music, this CD is perfect. Trumpeter Hirt is a technical marvel, and this disc of Pete Fountain's, the clarinetist, is great for the people who love Hirt's music, as this disc is a Pete Fountain tribute, the two playing together with four others in a group, to Hirt who had apparently just died before this CD released, according to its liner notes written by Pete. It says Al and Pete used to go fishing together.

Under normal circumstances, I suppose this fact about fishing together would be unimportant; but, it gives me something about Hirt's personal life, as does the part about Al's and Pete's laughably terrible tenure together as pest control exterminators when the jazz scene in Orleans was still scarce early in their relationship.

During my own, personal trumpet-playing years through junior high school--I played about four years--I looked up at Al "Jumbo" Hirt as a kid. And, like Hirt, I also went into the army, although I had other duties than playing a bugle or trumpet there: I had nine years beginning in 1997.

I once saw Al Hirt play live. It was July Fourth, probably around 1989 would be my guess. He came to Ormond Beach, the adjacent city--meaning next to--Daytona Beach in Florida--where I lived and went to school. Needless to say, I will never forget that experience for as long as I live. It was under the Granada Bridge, which is the largest bridge crossing the Intercoastal Waterway River, called the Halifax River in that part of Florida. It runs parallel to the Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach shoreline. Actually, that "beach side" of the river is only a few blocks wide. The largest bridge in the Daytona Beach area is the one that crosses the Halifax River in Ormond Beach: the Granada Bridge. At the foot of the eastern beach-side of the river, there was a large picnic-style festival with cotton candy, watermelon, and other stuff that one finds in a carnival-styled picnic. This festival was called Jazz-Matazz. There were several jazz musicians at the fest, one of them was a local who had come from the area. But, the highlight of this great jazz night was seeing Al Hirt with his band on the podium playing dixieland jazz. As dusk loomed over onto the west, I could see behind me thick crowds of spectators standing on Granada Bridge up to a mile back from where I was sitting, on the grass, and they loved the music. The crowds gathered there once Hirt-and-company started to play: talk about attracting a crowd! And so, Al Hirt played until the merriment of July Fourth fireworks of Ormond Beach went crashing onto the dark sky. Man, what a memorable image I carry from that evening when my dad took me and my younger sister to that fest.

I guess I must've been very busy with the army for those nine years because, in 1999, I didn't even know that Hirt had died. That's a long life from his birth in 1922. But, reading these liner notes somehow changes me. I only just found out he died about a week ago, and hence I picked out a great disc of Hirt jazz in the same memoriam to Hirt that Fountain provides by this release: this is the disc I chose. Knowing of his death makes me feel loss, remorse, and regret; and, I even feel I'm on the verge of tears. But, I know that if I feel the notion of sorrow, that it fits in with Hirt's music somehow. In addition to that, I also have that live performance on the Super Jazz CD, with Fountain and Hirt. In that disc, Hirt talks about something called a "jazz funeral."

A jazz funeral is a New Orleans-style funeral where, instead of ordinary funeral music, dixie and rag music would be played live after the funeral procession, much like having a party. He says the jazz music would start slow to show sympathy to the dead person, but that the music would then crank up into fast dixie-style jazz like a happy party--like in that movie "One Night Stand" with Wesley Snipes. I don't know if Hirt had a "jazz funeral" when he died, but I imagine so; and, I imagine the pain felt by those, like Fountain, for Hirt's death. And, I share in that pain. A marvel who plays as well as Hirt shouldn't have to die; he should get to ramble around forever.

Al Hirt, if you're listenin' from up there, your music has made the world a better place.

Oh yeah, if you dig this Mardi Gras stuff, check out these CDs: Al Hirt at the Mardi Gras (fun stuff!), and Honey in the Horn/Our Man in New Orleans (the 2-album CD). These albums help prove why New Orleans is on the Music Map of the world. The only thing that came even close to the experience I've had with Al Hirt's CDs was when I visited Munich's Hofbraeuhaus while I was stationed in Germany, a restaurant with a live band that really cooks, although it's beer-drinking music of a different kind.

Essential Dixieland.......2004-09-24

This rare CD is a revelation. The music is well played swinging Dixieland music, played by the best. Al Hirt on trumpet, Pete Fountain on clarinet and also tenor sax, and Bob Havens on trombone. The remastering is excellent. A highlight are the two rare tenor sax solos by Fountain on Wolverine Blues and Washington & Lee Swing. Great stuff!

Average customer rating:

Ultimate Mariachi
MARIACHI REAL DE SAN DIEGO
Manufacturer: Mardi Gras Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Mariachi | Latin Music | Styles | Music

Mexico | International | Styles | Music
Similar Items:

Mariachi Cobre
Mexico Canta con el Mariachi Sol de Mexico
The Best of Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán: Ultimate Collection
Mariachi: Folklore de Mexico
XXV Aniversario

ASIN: B000K2UG34
Release Date: 2006-11-14

Tracks:

Guantanamera
Alla En Al Rancho Grande
Quizaas, Quizas
Guadalajara
Cuando Calienta El Sol
Cielito Lindo
Jalisco Jalisco
La Bamba
El Jarabe Tapatio
El Dos Negro
Cucurrucucu Paloma
Jesusita En Chihuahua
Piel Canela
Ojos Espanoles
Besame Mucho
Son De La Negra

Music Review:

Music Review

music review

Music Review

Creature Feature [Explicit Lyrics]

Corno da caccia

Bizet - L'Arlésienne / Mesguich · Rouleau · O.C. de Toulouse · Malgoire

Ultimate Country Hits

Dancestar 2001 [Import]

Canyon

Afinidades [Import]

Bay Area Playaz, Vol. 2 [Explicit Lyrics]

Batucada Por Favor

Brazilian Piano Music

Code Blues [Explicit Lyrics]

Baptism

Classic Material [CD-single]

Out the Box

The Secret of Elena's Tomb

1. Lookin' for a Reason
2. Take It Like a Friend
3. Need Someone to Hold
4. Tearin' Up the Country
5. Someday Never Comes
6. What Are You Gonna Do?
7. Sail Away
8. Hello Mary Lou
9. Door to Door
10. Sweet Hitch-Hiker