|
|
Music CD - Various Artists: Putumayo Presents: New Orleans
|
Music CD: Putumayo Presents: New Orleans
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $8.96
Your Save: $ 7.02 ( 44% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music
|
Average Customer Rating: 
|
|
Tracks:
|
1. Drop Me Off In New Orleans - Kermit Ruffins
2. I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues - Nicholas Payton
3. Basin Street Blues - Louis Prima
4. Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams - Duke Dejan
5. Baby Won't You Please Come Home - Topsy Chapman And The Pros
6. The Devil Done Got Me Blues - Kevin Clark And The Jazz Revelation
7. Tin Roof Blues - Louis Armstrong
8. Basin Street Blues - Dr. John
9. Give It Up (Gypsy Second Line) - Dr. Michael White
10. Going Back To New Orleans - Deacon John
11. Bye & Bye/Saints - Greg Stafford
|
|
|
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0790248023229
Format: Enhanced
Label: Putumayo World Music
Manufacturer: Putumayo World Music
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Putumayo World Music
Release Date: 2005-01-25
Studio: Putumayo World Music
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great sampler of N.O. music
Comment: Purchased my first copy when at the Audubon Zoo in N.O. and love the variety of music styles and musicians. Have since gotten additional CDs of works by individual musicians featured on this CD. This particular purchase (2nd copy) was to give to my brother for Christmas.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Memories of the Big Easy
Comment: This is another CD I found at my friend Regina's shop, Art and Soul. It is a collection of New Orleans style music featuring Louis Prima with "Basin Street Blues" and Louis Armstrong with
"Tin Roof Blues," and a number of other artists for a total of 11 cuts (Dr. John also performs an arrangement of Basin Street Blues). It gives you the spirit of the Big Easy. The CD starts with Kermit Ruffins' "Drop me off in New Orleans" (playing time 4:28) and ends with Gregg Stafford & Dr. Michael White in a combination, "Bye & Bye/Saints" (playing time 8:02) -the latter being the traditional end of a New Orleans style performance (it was played at the end of a friend's funeral service).
There is a small booklet inside the PC case giving informatin on the various artists (in English, Spanish, and French). As a bonus, it includes a recipe for Seafood Gumbo.
Overall it is an excellent music collection. A sticker on the outer wrapper indicated that Futumayo is giving their proceeds from the CD to New Orleans Relief.
My main objections are that the CD case does not snap closed tight, and the CD takes over your PC if you play it on a PC Media Player (also, for some reason, the sound quality was not good when I tried playing it on my PC). It played well on the CD player in my car, and on a separate CD player at my house.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Enjoyed the variety of artists
Comment: Great music... I have listened to a vast amount of New Orlean's numbers and find this music very entertaining.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A great introductory album!
Comment: If you're not familiar with New Orleans music, this is a great place to start. It's an authentic collection of the type of music that the city is genuinely home to (accurately, no zydeco or cajun tracks are included here, as those are imports from Southwest Louisiana) and it's a nicely rounded collection, at that.
The music of New Orleans is only one of about a million things that make the city so special, and this is a great place to get started. If you're already a die-hard New Orleans music fan, you'll probably find that you have most of these tracks in your collection anyway, but for the beginner, this collection is perfect.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Poignant and marvelous music
Comment: I've always loved the music that flourishes in New Orleans, and this CD contains examples of some of the best music the Crescent City has always offered to the world, from such legends as Armstrong and Prima, and from wonderful current artists like Kermit Ruffins. The music may seem poignant now in the face of Hurricane Katrina, but it also contains a defiant merriness that leaves no doubt that New Orleans will recover and rise again from this disaster. Best of all, producer Putumayo has stated that all sales of this album will go to relief efforts in New Orleans -- as good a reason to own and revel in this CD as any!
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
The Putumayo label is known for its easily recognizable packaging and accessible collections of music from around the world. Here the label takes a broad survey of one of the most storied music towns in the world. Household names like Louis Prima, Louis Armstrong and Dr. John do their version of some Crescent City classics. Local favorites like trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, Preservation Hall Jazz Band and singer Topsy Chapman offer up traditional flavor as well. Music fans knowledgeable about the local scene will likely be happy about the inclusion of the swingin' December-May collaboration between trumpeters Doc Cheatham (who was 91 when he recorded "I Gotta Right To Sing The Blues") and Nicholas Payton (who has 23). Highlighting a vibrant diversity of old and new talent, this album is a musical and cultural tour of a town filled with French Creole culture, a Spanish tinge and some good old American jazz and blues. --Tad Hendrickson
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
