The bright Mississippi
(2009, original release: 2008)
By:
Toussaint, Allen
Music CD
Call Numbers:
CD/JAZZ/TOUSSAINT,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Nonesuch, [2009]
℗2009
℗2009
DESCRIPTION
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
6312859142 480380-2, 9786312859147, 075597992878
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Compact disc
Notes by Joe Henry on insert
Allen Toussaint, piano, and vocals on "Long, long journey" ; Don Byron, clarinet ; Nicholas Payton, trumpet ; Marc Ribot, guitar ; David Piltch, bass ; Jay Bellerose, drums, percussion ; special guests: Brad Mehldau, piano on "Winin' boy blues" ; Joshua Redman, tenor saxophone on "Day dream."
Recorded March 19-22, 2008, Avatar Studios, New York
CONTENTS
Egyptian fantasy /
Sidney Bechet, John Reid -- Dear old Southland /
Raymond Bloch -- St. James Infirmary --
Singin' the blues /
J. Russel Robinson, Con Conrad -- Winin' boy blues /
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- West end blues /
Joe Oliver, Clarence Williams -- Blue drag /
Django Reinhardt -- Just a closer walk with Thee --
Bright Mississippi /
Thelonious Monk -- Day dream /
Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn -- Long, long journey /
Leonard Feather -- Solitude /
Duke Ellington, Irving Mills, Eddie DeLange