VA - Very Best of Dixieland New Orleans (2018)

Dixieland jazz can be said to have originated in New Orleans in the early 1900’s when band members began to improvise or ‘jazz’ up a melody rather than play it ‘straight’ as in the score. Improvisation is by its very nature unique to each performer, but what separated the New Orleans players from others was that they improvised as an ensemble not as solo instrumentalists: as one player played the melody, others together improvised around it.

TRACKLIST

01. Bunk Johnson and His Band - When The Saints Go Marching In
02. Eddie Condon and His Orchestra - My Melancholy Baby
03. George Lewis and his New Orleans Band - Mahogany Hall Stomp
04. Bunk Johnson and His Band - One Sweet Letter From You
05. Firehouse Five Plus Two - Tiger Rag
06. Wilbur de Paris - Hindustan
07. Firehouse Five Plus Two - Chinatown, My Chinatown
08. Muggsy Spanier - Chicago
09. Bunk Johnson's Superior Jazz Band - Panama
10. George Lewis and his New Orleans Band - Savoy Blues
11. Wilbur de Paris - Bourbon Street Parade
12. Bunk Johnson and His Band - Down by the Riverside
13. Kid Ory And His Creole Jazz Band - Careless Love
14. Wild Bill Davison and His Commodores - That's A-Plenty
15. Edmond Hall Sextet - The Sheik of Araby
16. Muggsy Spanier and his Band - Sweet Sue, Just You
17. Bunk John and his New Orleans Band - Darktown Strutter's Ball
18. Louis Armstrong And His Hot Seven - Coal Cart Blues
19. Sidney Bechet - Honeysuckle Rose
20. Jimmy McPartland and His Orchestra - The World is Waiting for the Sunrise
21. Eddie Condon and His Band - Ballin' The Jack
22. Louis Armstrong and His All Stars - New Orleans Function