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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. Album Tracks 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 1. Yes We Can Can - By Allen Toussaint 2. Trick Bag - By Earl King 3. Ruler of My Heart - By Irma Thomas 4. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - By Snooks Eaglin 5. Ain't Got No Home - By Clarence InchFrogmanInch Henry 6. Big Chief Got the Golden Crown - By the White Eagles 7. Big Chief - By Professor Longhair 8. Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching in - By Dixie Cups 9. Red Beans - By Marcia Ba
