Various Artists - Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Various Artists) (CD)

Details: Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Various Artists Few music festivals are as rich, profound, and joyous as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now entering it's 50th year. With 50 tracks recorded live, Jazz Fest captures the festival's ecstatic spontaneity, which defines the essence and vitality of American popular music. Ever since it's inception a half century ago, Jazz Fest has exuberantly expressed the unique confluence in New Orleans of Native American, African, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Asian communities. With essays and annotations by Keith Spera, Karen Celestan, Robert Cataliotti, Jeff Place, Rachel Lyons, and Jon Pareles, plus photos spanning the festival's history, this box set delivers the sights and sounds of being at Jazz Fest for those who have not yet been there, and rekindles memories for the hundreds of thousands who return to New Orleans year after year.

Tracklist:

1. Indian Red - By the Golden Eagles
2. Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - By Larry McKinley
3. One Night Only (The March) - By Trombone Shorty
4. Free to Be - By Donald Harrison JR
5. Basin Street Blues - By Danny Barker
6. A Streetcar Named Desire - By Terence Blanchard
7. Royal Garden Blues - By Kermit Ruffins Big Band
8. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living / Rub a Little Boogie - By Champion Jack Dupree
9. Back Home Again in Indiana - By George Wein ; Newport All-Stars
10. Louisiana 1927 - By John Boutte
11. Yes We Can Can - By Allen Toussaint
12. Trick Bag - By Earl King
13. Ruler of My Heart - By Irma Thomas
14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - By Snooks Eaglin
15. Ain't Got No Home - By Clarence "Frogman" Henry
16. Big Chief Got the Golden Crown - By the White Eagles
17. Big Chief - By Professor Longhair
18. Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching in - By Dixie Cups
19. Red Beans - By Marcia Ball
20. Litanie Des Saints / Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk on Gilded Splinters - By Dr. John
21. How Ya Gonna Clap? - By Ray Hackett
22. Blackbird Special - By the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
23. Hey Now Baby - By Henry Butler
24. Secret Love - By Germaine Bazzle ; Red Tyler Quintet
25. Jazznocracy - By Al Belletto Big Band
26. Summertime - By Original Liberty Jazz Band
27. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - By Preservation Hall Jazz Band
28. I Want to Be at That Meeting / Golden Gate Gospel Train - By the Zion Harmonizers
29. Old Rugged Cross - By Irma Thomas
30. Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus - By Raymond Myles ; the Gospel Soul Children
31. I Can Go to God in Prayer - By Johnson Extension
32. Hard to Stop - By Buckwheat Zydeco
33. Paper in My Shoe - By Boozoo Chavis
34. Midland Two-Step - By the Savoy Family Cajun Band
35. Disco Et Fais Do-Do - By Bruce Daigrepont
36. Recherche D'acadie - By Beausoleil
37. Yellow Moon - By the Neville Brothers
38. When the Levee Breaks - By John Campbell
39. It Don't Mean a Doggone Thing - By John Mooney
40. Starlight Diamond / Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don't Have to Go / Baby What You Want Me to Do / Going T - By Kenny Neal
41. What Is Success - By Allen Toussaint ; Bonnie Raitt
42. Double-Eyed Whammy - By Tommy Ridgley
43. Fire on the Bayou - By Funky Meters
44. Take the "A" Train - By Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
45. Blue Moon Rising - By Walter "Wolfman" Washington
46. Happy Home - By Deacon John
47. Rain Alert - By Larry McKinley
48. Blue Tarp Blues - By Sonny Landreth
49. Back on Dumaine - By Anders Osborne
50. Thorn in Her Side - By the Subdudes
51. N.O. Bounce - By Big Freedia
52. Smoke My Peace Pipe - By Wild Magnolias
53. Amazing Grace / One Love - By the Neville Brothers