Details
Track Listing
1. Red Hot Peppers
2. New Orleans Bump
3. King Porter Stomp
4. Pearls, The
5. Deep Creek
6. Mamanita - (with Danilo Perez)
7. Sidewalk Blues
8. Jungle Blues
9. Big Lip Blues
10. Dead Man Blues
11. Smokehouse Blues
12. Billy Goat Stomp - (with Harry Connick Jr.)
13. Courthouse Bump
14. Black Bottom Stomp
15. Tom Cat Blues - (with Eric Reed)
Album Notes
Personnel: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet); Victor Goines (soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet); Wessell Anderson (alto saxophone); Wycliffe Gordon (trumpet, trombone, tuba); Lucien Barbarin (trombone); Michael White (clarinet); Harry Connick, Jr., Eric Lewis, Eric Reed, Danilo Perez (piano); Donald Vappie (guitar, banjo); Reginald Veal (bass); Herlin Riley (drums).
Engineers include: Todd Whitelock, Delfeayo Marsalis, Peter N. Dilg.
Recorded at the Grande Lodge Masonic Hall, New York, New York on Jaunary 12 & 13, 1999. "Tom Cat Blues" was recorded on wax cylinder at the Thomas Edison laboratory, West Orange, New Jersey in 1993. Includes liner notes by Stanley Crouch.
Industry Reviews
...Befitting the historic importance of Mr. Jelly Lord ['Roll' Morton]...the music is addressed by no fewer than four very divergent pianists: Eric Lewis, Eric Reed, Danilo Perez, and Harry Connick, Jr. ....gives [this music] a contemporary polish with aplomb...
JazzTimes (01/01/2000)
...conceived...as a demonstration of 'the contemporary power' of early jazz, and to that end assemble a group which, for one track, includes Harry Conick Jr. on piano. The result is characteristically scrupulous...
The Wire (01/01/2000)
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