The All-American Music

A Chronology of New Orleans Jazz

Featuring the Arrowhead Jazz Band



The Park’s mission is to preserve information about New Orleans' participation in the development of jazz. To spotlight the significant efforts of early New Orleans players, the National Park Service has prduced this unique pair of CDs featuring a specially assembled group, the Arrowhead Jazz Band, named, appropriately, after the Park Service's familiar logo.

These CD's can be purchased from our bookstore

 

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On Volume One, the Arrowhead Jazz Band plays 14 tunes that were originally recorded in New Orleans by New Orleans jazzmen during the jazz era. These hometown recordings are important aural documentations of the sounds heard in the city's parks, cafes, dance halls, cabarets, barrel houses, and hotel ballrooms.

Samples from Volume One

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1. Red Man Blues

2. Peculiar Rag

3. Let Me Call You Sweetheart

4. My Josephine

5. Station Calls

6. Pretty Audrey

7 He's the Sweetest Black Man In Town

8. Meat on the Table

9. Throwin' the Horns

10. Mobile Stomp

11. Short Dress Gal

12. Wylie Avenue Blues

13. Astoria Strut

14. Goodbye, Good Luck to You

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The tunes played by the Arrowhead Jazz Band on Volume Two are based on material recorded in New Orleans years after portable equipment was brought to preserve the sounds of the "Early Years." Ironically, as the "Revival" period was developing in the '40s, recording facilities were available locally, but they did not allow black musicians in the studios. As a result, most of the masterful records that inspired this program were made on portable eqipument in store rooms, radio stations, dance halls, etc. The musicians who recorded these historically important recordings were born before or near the turn of the twentieth century and enjoyed careers that significantly contributed to the development of New Orleans jazz.

Samples from Volume Two

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1. Get It Right

2. The Moose March

3. Storyville Blues

4. Big Chief Battle Ax

5. Bluebells Goodbye

6. Fidgety Feet

7. Uptown Bump

8. When You and I Were Young Maggie

9. Precious Lord Take My Hand

10. The Curse of an Aching Heart

11. Yaaka Hula Hickey Dula

12. Eh La Bas

13. Come on Down to New Orleans

14. Houma, Louisiana