(This is its own category, because although most of these groups
could be placed in other categories an indelible part of New Orleans lives in and
constructed them. New Orleans is a gumbo and the collection of this
music heard together, because there is a link unlike any other place on the
planet.)
· Aaron Neville – solo work for the angelic voice for
New Orleans [The Very Best of the Neville Brothers: Aaron & Art Neville
(2006), My True Story (2013)]
· Allen Toussaint – One of the greatest composers in
modern American music history with amazing piano chops, Icon [The Complete
Toussan Sessions (1958), From A Whisper To A Scream (1970), Southern Nights
(1975), Songbook (2013)]
· Big Freedia– New Orleans bounce rap Queen [Just Be Free (2014)]
· Brandford Marsalis – trumpet player from the first family
of New Orleans jazz, less formal than Wynton [Bloomington (1991), Four MFs
Playin’ Tunes (2012)]
· Clarence ‘frongman’ Henry – a poor man’s Fats Domino with very
lonely music that rocks on the piano that borders exuberance and depression
that screams New Orleans [Ain’t Got NO Home: The Best of Clarence ‘frogman’
Henry (1956)]
· Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown – swamp blues guitar player in a cowboy
hat and Dixie Andre Williams kind of sound [Down South… In The Bayou Country
(1974), Back to Bogalusa (2001)]
· Clifton Chenier – the zydeco king with a blues and folk
two step party [Louisiana Blues and Zydeco (1965), The Best of Clifton Chenier
(1975), 60 Minutes with the King of Zydeco (1988)]
· Coolbone Brass Band – decent jazz band that is more
traditional than party [Coolbone Swing Troop (2012)]
· Cowboy Mouth – New Orleans rock music that will grasp your soul and
make you want to kick yourself in the ass for thinking life wasn’t worth living
[It Means Escape (1994), Are You With Me? (1996), All You Need Is Live (2000),
Mouthin’ Off…Live! France ’92 (2005), Fearless (2008)]
· The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Classic veteran New Orleans Brass Band
music with a trumpeter that can play two trumpets at once [Live Mardi Gras in
Montreux (1985), The New Orleans Album (1990), This is Jazz 30: The Dirty Dozen
Brass Band (1997), Back Jump (1999), Medicated Magic (2002), What’s Going On
(2008)]
· Dr. John – voodoo master piano/funk guru with Yat/blues lyrics [Gris-Gris
(1968), In The Right Place (1973), The Ultimate Dr. John (1987), Goin’ Back to
New Orleans (1992), Duke Elegant (2000), All By Hisself Live at the Lonestar
(2003), N’awlinz: Dis, Dat Or D’Udda (2004), Mercenary (2006), City Lights
(2008), City That Care Forgot (2008), Locked Down (2012)]
· Dr. Michael White – classy jazz on the clarinet [Jazz From
the Soul of New Orleans (2002), Blue Crescent (2008)]
· Ellis Marsalis – the piano patriarch of the first jazz
family of NOLA [On the First Occasion (1998)]
· Emile Barnes – clarinetist Bourbon Street foot stomp jelly-roll style
band [Emile Barnes’ Louisiana Joymakers: Opening Night at Preservation Hall
(2013)] – music from 1920’s to 1940’s
· Fats Domino –the real Elvis, if there is a king of rock and roll, the
foundation, the root, Fats might be it, the greatest musician in New Orleans
history, yes even above Louis. Fats
defined rock and roll at the piano and singing in a way that broke barriers on
a global level; icon, the man, bow people.
Fats sang some of the greatest rock n’roll love songs of joy and pain
ever performed. Fats created rock n’roll
on the piano, Chuck Berry on guitar. Fuck Elvis. The Out of New Orleans boxset
changed my life. Icon [Fats Domino Out
of New Orleans (1993 – music spans career), Walking To New Orleans (2002), Live
At Monteux (2005), Greatest Hits: Walking to New Orleans (2007)] Music 1949 to 1980
· Flaming Arrows – Afro-Indian tribal Congo Square Bamboula
rhythm New Orleans music, let’s go get ‘em [Here Come The Indians (1997)]
· Galactic – New Orleans funk/rock demigods that will make you shake
all night and can play with a cast characters [We Love ‘Em Tonight Live at
Tipitinas (2001), ), Vintage Reserve(2003), Ya-Ka-May (2010), The Other Side of
Midnight Live in New Orleans (2011), Carnivale Electricos (2012)]
· Harry Connick Jr. – Frank Sinatra-like with New Orleans
Blues and a Marsalis’ trained pedigree piano chops. [Harry Connick, Jr. (1987), 20 (1988), When
Harry Met Sally Soundtrack (1989), Blue Light, Red Light (1991), 25 (1992),
Eleven (), Come By Me (1999), Songs I Heard (2001), Only You (2004), Oh, My
Nola (2007), Your Songs (2009), Every Man Should Know (2013), Smokey Mary
(2013)]
· Henry Butler – New Orleans’ blind piano playing soul singer [Pianola
Live (2008)]
· Hot 8 Brass Band – past midnight New Orleans’ brass to
make you dance [Tombstone (2013)]
· Irma Thomas – the soul queen of New Orleans [A Woman’s Viewpoint: The
Essential 1970’s Recordings (1973), If You Want It, Come and Get It (1999), My
Heart’s in Memphis: The Songs of Dan Penn (2000)]
· Irvin Mayfield – world class trumpeter and a pillar of
modern jazz [Love Songs, Ballads, and Standards w/ Ellis Marsalis (2008), A
Love Letter To New Orleans (2011)]
· Jason Marsalis – the talent continues [In a world of
Mallets (2013)]
· Jelly Roll Morton – The birth of foot stomp sidewalk jazz:
foundational [Birth of the The Hot – The Classic Chicago “Red Hot Peppers”
Sessions 1926-27)]
· Jeremy Davenport – cabaret singer with a trumpet doing
his thing in the lounge [Maybe In A Dream (2009)]
· Jerry Lee Lewis – classic country piano wild child like
a poor man’s Little Richard [20 Classic Jerry Lee Lewis’ Hits! (1957)]
· John Boutte – New Orleans’ Sam Cooke [Jambalaya (2008)]
· Kermit Ruffins – Modern Louis Armstrong and New Orleans
ambassador with a humble keeping it real style who will also cook you some BBQ
at his show [Swing This (1999), Throwback (2005), Live At Vaughn’s (2007),
Happy Talk (2010), We Partyin’ Traditional Style (2013)]
· Los Hombres Calientes – Latino rhythm jazz side project of
Irvin Mayfield [Vol 5 Carnival (2009)]
· Louis Armstrong – The icon of New Orleans jazz and
trumpet virtuoso, unique world class voice, his songs with Ella are timeless [1923-1931
Louis Armstrong (1927), 1932-46 Louis’ Love Songs (1938), Hello Dolly (1964), Platinum
Classics: The Very Best of Louis Armstrong (2005), The Definitive Collection
(2006), Blow Satchmo Blow (2010)] – Music late 1920’s to early 1960’s
· Louis Prima – big band king of swing rhythm king with New Orleans
trumpet chops [Capitol Collectors Series (1991), Let’s Swing It (2006)] – music
late 1950’s to early 1970’s
· Louisiana Red – blues man kickin’ raw with his tongue
out telling you to take your hand off that turkey [Live in Montreux (2000), A
Different Shade of Red (2013), No Turn on Red (2014)]
· Mahalia Jackson – greatest gospel singer ever vocalizing
the pain and passion of a people of slavery being given Jesus by their
enslavers to appease plantation life carrying forward into the civil rights
movement and the confliction of the soul in the cultural contradiction [Just
Over the Hill, There’s A City Called Heaven (50 song compilation, not sure on
year), Live at Newport 1958, The World’s Greatest Gospel Singer (1955)] Music
from 1930’s to 1970’s
· The Marsalis Family – from poverty to the New Orleans modern
jazz family, their jazz influence is global and Harry Connick should pay Ellis
Marsalis royalties on every album he sells [A Jazz Celebration (2009). Music
Redeems (2010)]
· The Meters – The foundation of New Orleans funk and house party good
times music, with George Porter’s world-class bass guitar [Struttin’ (1970),
Fire On the Bayou (1975), ,The Meters Anthology (1995), Funky Meters Fiyo at
the Fillmore (2003), The Very Best of the Meters (2005)]
· The Neville Brothers – The Marsalis family is the first
family of NOLA jazz, the Neville’s are the first family of old school Mardi
Gras Indian funk tribal blues groove NOLA rhythms Art, Charles, Aaron, Cyril
and Ivan Neville [Yellow Moon (1989), Fiyo On the Bayou(1981), Brother’s Keeper
(1990)]
· Nicholas Payton – skilled trumpeter with classic refined
musicianship [Payton’s Place (1998)]
· Olympia Brass Band – classic New Orleans second line march
down the street in captains hats with a tuba, sax, umbrella, trumpet leading
you to glory [The Olympia Brass Band ()]
· Pete Fountain – the great Dixie land jazz clarinetist making
the people happy [Best of Pete Fountain (2007)]
· Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Classic of the classic French Quarter
traditional jazz wake up on Sunday morning and do the good work in the walk
[New Orleans Vol 1 (1977), New Orleans Vol II (1988), Marching Down Bourbon
Street (1997), Shake That Thing (2004), That’s It! (2013)]
· Professor Longhair – definition of New Orleans piano-based
playin’, maybe the most under advertised NOLA musician that never got his due,
Despite Fez’s presence at Tipitina’s he should have been so much better
known. The quintessential Mardi Gras
artist [Rock ‘n Roll Gumbo (1977), Crawfish Fiesta (1979)]
· Radiators – New Orleans rock n’ roll swamp party [Radiology (1985),
Live AT the Great American Music Hall (1998), Bucket of Fish (2002), New Dark
Ages (1995)] music 1978 to 2011
· Rebirth Brass Band – The New Orleans brass band, street brass
music at its best, make you dance with a drink in your hand all night. If you are in New Orleans on a Tuesday head
to the Maple Leaf on Oak Street. If I am ever feeling down, I put this on and
all is right with the world. [Throwback
feat Kermit Ruffins (2005), Do Watch Wanna (2008), The Main Event: Live at the
Maple Leaf (2008), Rebirth Of New Orleans (2011), Rebirth of New Orleans (2011),
Move Your Body (2014)]
· Rockin’ Dopsie, Jr.– two-step rocking zydeco [Zydeco Man (2008)]
· Sean Johnson & the Wild Lotus Band – yes it’s Kirtan, yes its New Orleans
yogi’s we dat too. Beautiful grasp of
our human interconnection with what we are [Unity (2014)]
· Sidney Bechet – icon of the clarinet and saxophone in
Louis Armstrong’s era, creole New Orleans roots [The Best of Sidney Bechet
(2001)] Music 1930’s to early 1950’s
· Snooks Eaglin’ – country blues in a bottle and a pork
chop bone little ray Charles from New Orleans playing guitar [Baby, You Can Get
Your Gun (1987), Country Boy in New Orleans (1991)] – music 1960’s to 1970’s
· Soul Rebels – if you are in NOLA on a Thursday past midnight go to Le
Bon Temps on Magazine you won’t regret it either: Brass band funk rolling [No
Place Like Home: Live in New Orleans (2010), Unlock Your Mind (2012)]
· Terence Blanchard – top shelf jazz on trumpet paid his
dues [Romantic Defiance (1994), Jazz In Film (1999)]
· Teresa Andersson – Swedish-born NOLA-strong came with
Anders Osborne beautiful voice and can play any instrument [Teresa Andersen The
EP (2006)]
· Trombone Shorty – young torch-bearer of New Orleans
pop-brass to the Globe [Backatown (2010), For True (2011), Trombone Shorty’s
Swingin’ Gate (2012), Say That To Say This (2013)]
· Wild Magnolias– original Mardi Gras Indian nation led by the
recently deceased Big Chief Bo Dollis featuring Monk Boudreaux and Snooks
Eaglin. When you listen you have to
imagine the feathers and the roots of what it meant for escaped slaves to meet Native
nations in Southern Louisiana that make Congo Square what it is to begin to
drink this music [The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1974)]
· Wild Tchopitoulas– NOLA Neville Brothers paying homage to the
flame that started their musical path [The Wild Tchoupitoulas (1991)]
· Wynton Marsalis– this family is just blessed, classic trumpet
and beautiful compositions [Standard
Time Vol 2: Intimacy Calling (1991), Joe
Cool Blues w/Ellis Marsalis (1995), Standard Time Volume 3: Resolution of
Romance (), Blood on the Fields (1997)]
Compilations
· Basin Street Sampler (2012) – Basin Street
Records
· City of Dreams: A Collection of New Orleans
Music (2007)
· Goin’ Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino (2007)
Essential Louisiana R&B (2005) – Ernie K
Doe, Lee Dorsey, Chris Kenner, Art Neville, Earl King
· J’ai Ete Au Bal (I went to the dance) (1990)
· Jazz Gumbo (includes Oliver Morgan Who shot
the La La) (1995)
· Louisiana Blues, Best of New Orleans
Blues (2012)
· Louisiana Piano Rhythms (2005)
· The Louisiana Recordings: Cajun & Creole
Music II (2010)
· Louisiana Saturday Night ()
· Best of Mardi Gras Indians (2012) – Wild
Magnolias, Flaming Arrows, Hundred & One Runners
· Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2001) – Bo Dollis
and the Wild Magnolias, Marcia Ball, Rebirth, Dirty Dozen,
· Mardi Gras In New Orleans, Vol II (1989)
· New Orleans Blues (2013)
· New Orleans Revival (40-54) (2006)
· Treme – The Sound of New Orleans
· Treme II – More Classic Sounds From New
Orleans
· Treme: Music From The HBO Original Series,
Season 1 (2010)
· Who Dat? (2006) – Saints songs [Aaron Neville,
Rebirth, Olympia, Rockin Dopsie]
{All of these comps are a mix of Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino,
Al Hirt, Louis Prima, Bo Dollis, Pete Fountain, and lesser known artists to the
world like Al Johnson, Walter Washington, Eddie Bo, Oliver Morgan, Anders
Osborne, Paul Lenart, Tab Benoit, Lee Dorsey, and Professor Longhair, who are
super stars in New Orleans that are worth checking out}
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