{"id":472,"date":"2009-12-17T17:25:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/a-new-orleans-postscript-some-recent-recordings\/"},"modified":"2009-12-20T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2009-12-20T17:48:16","slug":"a-new-orleans-postscript-some-recent-recordings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/2009\/12\/a-new-orleans-postscript-some-recent-recordings\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Orleans Postscript, Some Recent Recordings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had intended to add this list of 2009 recordings by New Orleans artists.  All but one were self-produced.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Ford, IT&#8217;S ALL RELATIVE (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordmusicproductions.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.fordmusicproductions.com<\/a>) Ford is a fine clarinetist\/saxophonist and the son of the late reedman Clarence Ford.  Ford is joined on this disc by reedmen Charlie Gabriel and Dr. Michael White, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Laughlin, A ROYAL ST. SERENADE (Gentilly Records).  Another clarinetist, Laughlin is the heir apparent to Pete Fountain.  Several originals in this collection, including &#8220;For Pete&#8217;s Sake,&#8221; dedicated to guess who.<\/p>\n<p>The Onward Brass Band, THE TRADITION CONTINUES (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onwardbb.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.onwardbb.com<\/a>).  &#8220;Onward&#8221; is one of the most recognizable and respected names in N. O. brass band history.  This is a special favorite of mine since I wrote the liner notes for it.<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Richards and The New Orleans Trio, ECCENTRIC! (New Orleans Jazz Productions, NOJP CD-8).  Drummer Richards has been leading fine trios for years.  He left N. O. for Germany after being devastated by Katrina.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit Ruffins, LIVIN&#8217; A TREME&#8217; LIFE (Basin Street Records 0107-2).  Probably the city&#8217;s most popular trumpeter, Ruffins adds a number of distinguished guests to his band for this program, like clarinetist Evan Christopher, the Bonerama horns, and trumpeter Troy Andrews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had intended to add this list of 2009 recordings by New Orleans artists. All but one were self-produced. Louis Ford, IT&#8217;S ALL RELATIVE (www.fordmusicproductions.com) Ford is a fine clarinetist\/saxophonist and the son of the late reedman Clarence Ford. Ford is joined on this disc by reedmen Charlie Gabriel and Dr. Michael White, among others. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[98,96],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jazzhouse.org\/diary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}