Jazz at Vespers [Live]

George Lewis (Clarinet) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 2, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000Z55
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #258,106 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just a Little While to Stay Here

2. Bye and Bye

3. Old Rugged Cross

4. Sometimes My Burden Is Hard to Bear

5. Down by the Riverside

6. Just a Closer Walk With Thee

7. Lord, Lord, You Sure Been Good to Me

8. When the Saints Go Marching In

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Beautiful Than Ever!, September 10, 2005

By 

otserick (Bordentown, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jazz at Vespers (Audio CD)

If you want to hear some of what might have recently been lost in New Orleans, listen to this beautiful Cd of "traditional" New Orleans jazz recorded in an Ohio church in 1954. It's spiritually profound - that potent gumbo of joy and grief that only New Orleans could produce. The playing is superb, particualrly Jim Robinson's trombone, and the repertoire is one classic after another. Long live Preservation Hall!

5.0 out of 5 stars Jazz at Vespers by George Lewis, November 19, 2011

By 

Runs on Jazz - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jazz at Vespers (Audio CD)

I grew up listening to this hearbreakingly, and yet comfortingly beautiful record. In 1961 my father designed a Unitarian Church in Cincinnati. The first guest they had at the Church, St. John's Unitarian Church was George Lewis. The church was so packed that my father, the architect, worried that the floor might collapse, but it drew an audience composed of people of all colors and religions, something that was previously unheard of in Cincinnati, Ohio at that time. I am so relieved to find that it has been put out on C.D. And yes, the first reviewer is correct, it does show a glimpse of old New orleans, but I don't think that has been totally lost. I hope not.