Various Artists - Traditional Jazz From New Orleans

Various Artists — Traditional Jazz From New Orleans

Featuring Jim Robinson, Sweet Emma, Kid Thomas Valentine, Percy Humpfrey and others

From the late 1960s into the mid-1980s a New Orleans-based record label, the Smoky Mary Phonograph Company, released 14 LPs by some of the city's most revered and respected elder jazz musicians. The labels's owner, trombonist Frank Demond, produced Smoky Mary's sessions and often played on them, including many of the songs anthologized here on Traditional Jazz From New Orleans.

A native of Los Angeles, Demond fell love with the Crescent City trad sound after hearing the Preservation Hall Band perform in California. That transformative moment inspired Demond to move to New Orleans, sit in with the band, and eventually join it. Smoky Mary refers to a nineteenth-century train which many musicians rode between gigs in downtown New Orleans, by the Mississippi River, and. Dome five miles away, in Milneburg on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Demond focused on recording such venerable veterans as singing pianist Sweet Emma Barrett, trumpeter Percy Humphrey and his clarinetist brother Willie Humphrey, trumpeter Kid Thomas Valentine, trombonist Jim (Big Jim?) Robinson, and a host of their colleagues.

1. Whenever You're Lonesome

2. Blues in Algiers

3. Kid Thomas Blues

4. Albert's Blues/Bucket's Got A Hole In It

5. Blues For Emma

6. Girl of My Dreams

7. After You've Gone/Basin Street Blues

8. How Long Blues

9. When You're Smiling

10. Big Butter and Egg Man

11. Little Liza Jane

12. Shake It and Break It

13. Bogalusa Strut

14. Willie's Cabbage Song

15. Bill Bailey

16. Eh La Bas

17. Just A Little While To Stay Here

18. Just A Closer Walk With Thee

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