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Professor Longhair: Longhair's Blues-Rhumba (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 18, 09Professor Longhair, born as Henry Roeland Byrd in 1918, influenced a host of New Orleans piano players who sold more ...
Professor Longhair: Go to the Mardi Gras (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music March 11, 09At the end of Lent, in the stretch up to Fat Tuesday, New Orleans busts loose – even now after Katrina's destruction ...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews August 26, 09Edited by Ted Gioia New Orleans does not rank in the top 50 cities in the US, when measured by population. It...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews September 02, 09Edited by Ted Gioia Below is the second and final part of jazz.com's history of New Orleans music in 100 tracks. ...
Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 09We continue in our noble if quixotic quest to review all of the great and almost great tracks in the history of jazz....
The Best Jazz Web Links: October 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages November 01, 08Sun Ra in Chicago David Brent Johnson focuses on the bandleader. Sheila Jordan honored ...
Allen Toussaint: Tipitina and Me (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music February 25, 09From the early '50s "Tee Nah Nah" by Smiley Lewis and the answering "Tipitina" by Professor Longhair through the high...
Dr. John: 'Fess Up (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music June 05, 09Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, is a walking, talking compendium of New Orleans music. As session cat, genia...
Champion Jack Dupree: Junker's Blues (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music May 20, 09A New Orleans favorite since never-recorded pianist "Drive 'Em Down" (Willie Hall) played it in the streets in the Tw...
Fats Domino: Swanee River Hop (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music June 05, 09Singer/pianoman Fats Domino and arranger/bandleader Dave Bartholomew took the polished loping rhythm of Professor Lon...
Dr. John: Iko Iko (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 11, 09Sugar Boy and the Cane Cutters recorded this song in the early 1950s, with Professor Longhair holding down the piano ...
Henry Butler: Bourbon Street Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 14, 09The New Orleans piano tradition is so rich that it is hard for the modern generation of keyboardists to live up to it...
Brooks, Hadda (Hapgood) posted in Encyclopedia January 19, 09Pianist and singer Hadda Brooks was an approximate contemporary of Julia Lee and Nellie Lutcher, yet, unlike them, he...
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