Various Artists

• 300 minutes of music

• 53 tracks

• 136-page book

• INCLUDES 5 CD

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s new box set, Jazz Fest, is a grand 50th anniversary celebration. Curated by Jazz Fest and Smithsonian Folkways, this compilation includes 50 tracks culled from live performances—one song for each year of the festival’s existence—as well as announcements intermixed throughout the collection. The set features prominent New Orleans artists like Allen Toussaint, Kermit Ruffins, Irma Thomas, Professor Longhair, Trombone Shorty, Dr. John, Stanley Joseph Dural Jr. (a.k.a Buckwheat Zydeco), The Zion Harmonizers, Big Freedia, and The Neville Brothers, and many others, all while exploring the Fair Grounds as a space where music genres such as traditional New Orleans jazz, blues, zydeco, Cajun, and bounce music converge to create a unique and rich experience.

In addition to the wide-ranging live performances, this collection includes an accompanying book with chapters written by George Wein, Keith Spera, Rachel Lyons, Karen Celestan, Robert H. Cataliotti, Dave Ankers, Jeff Place, and Jon Pareles, which document the origins of Jazz Fest and cultural heritage, as well as Louisiana culinary traditions.

The Jazz Fest certainly “captures the festival’s ecstatic spontaneity.” This collection does a phenomenal job at presenting Louisiana’s musical diversity while recreating the experience of what a day is like on the grounds of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. This is definitely an anthology that fans will enjoy and cherish!

TRACKS:

• DISC ONE:
• 01. Indian Red - By THE GOLDEN EAGLES
• 02. Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - By LARRY McKINLEY
• 03. One Night Only (The March) - By TROMBONE SHORTY
• 04. Free to Be - By DONALD HARRISON, Jr.
• 05. Basin Street Blues - By DANNY BARKER
• 06. A Streetcar Named Desire - By TERENCE BLANCHARD
• 07. Royal Garden Blues - By KERMIT RUFFINS BIG BAND
• 08. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living/Rub a Little Boogie - By CHAMPION JACK DUPREE
• 09. Back Home Again in Indiana - By GEORGE WEIN & NEWPORT ALL-STARS
• 010. Louisiana 1927 - By John Boutte

• DISC TWO;
• 01. Yes We Can Can - By ALLEN TOUSSAINT
• 02. Trick Bag - By EARL KING
• 03. Ruler of My Heart - By IRMA THOMAS
• 04. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - By SNOOKS EAGLIN
• 05. Ain't Got No Home - By CLARENCE "FROGMAN" HENRY
• 06. Big Chief Got the Golden Crown - By THE WHITE EAGLES
• 07. Big Chief - By PROFESSOR LONGHAIR
• 08. Iko Iko/Brother John / Saints Go Marching In - By DIXIE CUPS
• 09. Red Beans - By MARCI BALL
• 10. Litanie des Saints/Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya/I Walk on Gilded Splinters - By Dr. JOHN

• DISC THREE:
• 01. How Ya Gonna Clap? - By RAY HACKETT
• 02. Blackbird Special - By THE DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND
• 03. Hey Now, Baby - By HENRY BUTLER
• 04. Secret Love - By GERMAINE BAZZLE & RED TYLER
• 05. Jazznocracy - By AL BELLETO BIG BAND
• 06. Summertime - By Original LIBERTY JAZZ BAND
• 07. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - By PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND
• 08. I Want to Be at That Meeting/Golden Gate Gospel Train - By THE ZION HARMONIZERS
• 09. Old Rugged Cross - By IRMA THOMAS
• 10. Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus - By RAYMOND MYLES & THE GOSPEL SOUL CHILDREN
• 11. I Can Go to God in Prayer - By JOHNSON EXTENSION

• DISC FOUR:
• 01. Hard to Stop - By BUCKWHEAT ZYDECO
• 02. Paper in My Shoe - By BOOZOO CHAVIS
• 03. Midland Two-Step - By THE SAVOY FAMILY CAJUN BAND
• 04. Disco et Fais Do-Do - By BRUCE DAIGREPONT
• 05. Recherche d'Acadie - By BEAUSOLLEIL
• 06. Yellow Moon - By The NEVILLE BROTHERS
• 07. When the Levee Breaks - By JOHN CAMPBELL
• 08. It Don't Mean a Doggone Thing - By JOHN MOONEY
• 09. Starlight Diamond/Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don't Have to Go/Baby, What You Want Me to Do/Going it - By KENNY NEAL
• 10. What Is Success - By ALLEN TOUSSAINT & BONNIE RAITT
• 11. Double-Eyed Whammy - By TOMMY RIDGLEY

• DISC FIVE:
• 01. Fire on the Bayou - By FUNKY METERS
• 02. Take the "A" Train - By CLARENCE "GATEMOUTH" BROWN
• 03. Blue Moon Rising - By WALTER "WOLFMAN" WASHINGTON
• 04. Happy Home - By DEACON JOHN
• 05. Rain Alert - By LARRY McKINLEY
• 06. Blue Tarp Blues - By SONNY LANDRETH
• 07. Back on Dumaine - By ANDERS OSBORNE
• 08. Thorn in Her Side - By THE SUBDUDES
• 09. N.O. Bounce - By BIG FREEDIA
• 10. Smoke My Peace Pipe - By WIL MAGNOLIAS
• 11. Amazing Grace / One Love - By THE NEVILLE BROTHERS