Music from the musical melting pot of the world, the birthplace of jazz and all its offshoots: New Orleans, the city where the seeds of jazz were first sown at Congo Square – now Louis Armstrong Park.
And, of course, another new instalment in Michael Varekamp’s column series The Second Line. This time: Pops in New York – 1.
Tracklist:
- Bix Beiderbecke – Way Down Yonder
- Fats Waller – Ain’t Misbehavin’
- Mahalia Jackson – Just A Little While
- George Lewis – Just A Little While
- Evan Christopher – Melancholy
- Clark Terry / Chico O. Farrill
- Thelonious Monk – Epistrophy
- Billy Strayhorn – Passion Flower
- Meschiya Lake – Because I Got High
- Dejans Olympia Big Band – I Got A Woman