Artist: Sweet Emma Barrett
Album: Sweet Emma Barrett and Her New Orleans Music
Genre: Dixieland
Label: GHB Records
Released: 1993
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (4:02)
- None of My Jelly Roll (3:46)
- Big Butter & Egg Man (3:19)
- That's a Plenty (3:56)
- Bogalousa Strut (2:15)
- Breeze (3:16)
- Pagan Love Song (3:32)
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game (3:36)
- Of All the Wrongs You've Done to Me (2:37)
- Bill Bailey (3:54)
- Long Way to Tipperary (3:42)
- Bye & Bye (2:40)
- Closer Walk with Thee (3:15)
- When I Grow Too Old to Dream (3:03)
- Just a Little While to Stay Here (2:39)
- The Eyes of Texas (2:59)
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For her second album as a leader, pianist Sweet Emma Barrett (who sings on four of the eight songs) heads two overlapping groups. While she is joined throughout by banjoist Emanuel Sayles, bassist Placide Adams and drummer Paul Barbarin, the frontlines change, with four songs featuring trumpeter Alvin Alcorn, trombonist Jim Robinson and clarinetist Louis Cottrell; the remaining four numbers have trumpeter Don Albert, trombonist Frog Joseph and clarinetist Raymond Burke. Overall, this set gives listeners a good sampling of the state of New Orleans jazz circa 1963 and is one of the few recordings of Barrett mostly without the regular members of what would become the Preservation Hall Jazz Band (Robinson and Sayles excepted). The ensemble-oriented renditions of such numbers as "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Bogalusa Strut" and "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" are fun and joyful.
Review by Scott Yanow