Playing in front of an invited studio audience, Dr. John is featured with a full-scale jazz ensemble on this 1991 session Funky New Orleans. Alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. is the leader of the date, which allows Dr. John to concentrate not only on piano and vocals but also his guitar playing. A hand full of Mac Rebennack and Harrison originals are mixed with the dirty blues of "Shave em Dry" and a nod to Professor Longhair and Earl King on "Big Chief." Also, two instrumental straight-ahead jazz pieces are explored on "Hu-Ta-Nay" and "Walkin Home." This really isn't a Dr. John recording as much as an honest portrayal of these (mainly) New Orleans musicians in an extremely loose and funky setting. Recommended and available on the budget Metro label.
Nine outstanding tracks recorded in 1991 with ace saxophonist Donald Harrison and his band at NYC's legendary Birdland.And you can't go wrong with an album that contains the following lyric: "I'm only 38 / My woman's 93 / My friends all think I'm crazy / But the will's made out to me!"
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Here is the Good Doctor, in company with tenor saxophonist Don Harrison and his band, live at New York City's Birdland in November 1991, covering one of the building blocks of the whole New Orleans sound - a tune "officially" written (but not copyrighted) by James "Sugarboy" Crawford and first recorded in 1954, but in all probability much older than that
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| 1 Hu-Ta-Nay |
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| 2 Big Chief |
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| 3 Shave 'Em Dead [Live] |
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| 4 Iko Iko [Live] |
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| 5 Mamzelle Zizi [Live] |
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| 6 Livin' on Borrowed Time [Live] |
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| 7 You Ain't Such a Much [Live] |
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| 8 Hu-Ta-Nay |
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| 9 Walkin' Home |
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