Sweet Emma Barrett and Her New Orleans Music

by Sweet Emma Barrett

Overview

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. ~ Scott Yanow

Product Details

Release Date:	12/02/1995
Label:	Ghb Records
UPC:	0762247514121
Rank:	69486

Tracks

1. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
2. None of My Jelly Roll
3. Big Butter and Egg Man
4. That's A-Plenty
5. Bougalousa Strut
6. Breeze
7. Pagan Love Song
8. Take Me Out to the Ball Game
9. Off All the Wrongs You've Done to Me
10. Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home
11. Long Way to Tipperary
12. Bye & Bye
13. Closer Walk With Thee
14. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
15. Just a Little While to Stay Here
16. The Eyes of Texas

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Sweet Emma Barrett   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Spencer Williams   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Hughie Cannon   Composer
Oscar Hammerstein II   Composer
Clarence Williams   Composer
Sigmund Romberg   Composer