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Music of New Orleans, Vol. 2: Dancing at Confectioners Hall

by Music of New Orleans

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1.
Twelfth Street Rag 03:35
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2.
Love Letters In The Sand 04:35
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3.
Some of These Days 06:39
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4.
Dream 04:40
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5.
Rock Around The Clock 05:13
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6.
My Wild Irish Rose 03:47
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7.
Cocktails for Two 03:41
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8.
Wait Till The Sun Shines Nellie 03:57
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9.
Darktown Strutters Ball 05:53
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10.
By The Light Of The Silvery Moon 04:05
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11.
Hurry On Down To My House, Honey 06:21
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12.
Second Line 04:53
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This is a recording of a dance, not folks dancing to a recording session. I have played many such dances in New Orleans over the years. They are all following a pattern. You play for the people at all times, whatever they want. Foxtrots, Quicksteps, Waltzes, Rhumbas, Tangos - whatever the people want.

There are hardly ever any
announcements from the orchestra. General one of the horns plays a bar or so of the request and holds up two fingers (denoting Bb) or four fingers (Ab) and so on. Within a minute the horn player just starts to play the song. Most times the first accompanist (almost always the drums) gets in behind the horn, then the guitar, piano, or banjo comes in within a couple of beats. It’s like a special code. Most times you play three songs then rest for maybe a minute then play three more, all down the line all night.

That was the case here at this dance at Confectioners Hal on Saturday May 3rd 1986. There were mostly locals comprising the crowd, interspersed with international jazz fans here for the French Quarter Festival. A motley crew indeed!

We had played the same dance at the same hall the year before on Friday May 3rd 1985. This CD has the same band with the exception of the trumpet. Percy Humphrey played the first year and his nephew, Emery Thompson, was the trumpetist on this CD. We always had food - the first year the caterer was chef Jacques Gauthe, but 1986’s chef was Austin Leslie from Chez Helene.

- Barry Martyn, New Orleans, 2016

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released May 2, 2020

Emery Thompson (TPT)
Louis Nelson (TBN)
Chris Burke (CLT)
Justin Adam (GTR)
Chester Zardis (SBS)
Barry Martyn (DRS & VCLS)

Recorded: May 3, 1986
Confectioners Hall
New Orleans, La

Recorded by Alden Ashforth
Mastering by Richard Bird
Produced by Barry Martyn

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