Time: 53:24
Size: 122.3 MB
Styles: New Orleans jazz
Year: 1994/2013
Art: Front
[3:16] 1. Anytime
[5:09] 2. BB Blues
[4:40] 3. Are You Ready
[3:58] 4. Sugar Blues
[4:15] 5. Shake Rattle & Roll
[3:30] 6. Kid Thomas' Tune
[4:24] 7. I'm All Alone
[2:15] 8. On The Bayou
[4:04] 9. In The Evening
[4:53] 10. Bells Of St. Mary
[4:39] 11. Blueberry Hill
[5:11] 12. Joe Butler's Blues
[3:05] 13. Je Vous Aime
Kid Thomas (tp); Ruben Roddy (as); Louis Nelson (tb); Joe James (p); Burke Stevenson (sb); Sammy Penn (dms) Warren Craig (vo%); Emanuel Paul (ts); Sing Miller (p, vo*); Joseph Butler (sb, vo#) replace Roddy, James and Stevenson.
One of the more controversial of the New Orleans revivalist players of the 1960s, Kid Thomas Valentine was hailed by some partisans as one of the great interpreters of "the real jazz" while others could not get beyond his erratic intonation and his occasionally out-of-tune solos. The feeling was there but the technique tended to be uncertain. However, allowances could be made for his advanced age, since Kid Thomas was still playing when he was 91! Valentine (who was often simply known as Kid Thomas) began playing at the age of ten and when he was 14 he joined the Pickwick Brass Band; his professional career would last 77 years. He worked locally until 1922 when he moved to New Orleans, freelancing in a variety of brass and dancehall bands (including his own Algiers Stompers, which he formed in 1926) throughout the next few decades. Valentine first appeared on records in 1951 and he was a regular at Preservation Hall starting in 1961, often playing with George Lewis.
One of the more controversial of the New Orleans revivalist players of the 1960s, Kid Thomas Valentine was hailed by some partisans as one of the great interpreters of "the real jazz" while others could not get beyond his erratic intonation and his occasionally out-of-tune solos. The feeling was there but the technique tended to be uncertain. However, allowances could be made for his advanced age, since Kid Thomas was still playing when he was 91! Valentine (who was often simply known as Kid Thomas) began playing at the age of ten and when he was 14 he joined the Pickwick Brass Band; his professional career would last 77 years. He worked locally until 1922 when he moved to New Orleans, freelancing in a variety of brass and dancehall bands (including his own Algiers Stompers, which he formed in 1926) throughout the next few decades. Valentine first appeared on records in 1951 and he was a regular at Preservation Hall starting in 1961, often playing with George Lewis.
The Dance Hall Years mc
The Dance Hall Years zippy