From New Orleans

Sylvia Kuumba Williams | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 11, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: GHB Music
• ASIN: B000000ZQ0
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #850,168 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Burgundy Street Blues

2. Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On

3. Big Fat Mama Blues

4. Birth Of The Blues

5. Precious Lord Take My Hand

6. None Of My Jelly Roll

7. This Little Light Of Mine

8. September In The Rain

9. New Blues Blues

10. Just A Closer Walk With Thee

11. Darktown Strutters' Ball

12. His Eye Is On The Sparrow

13. Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The quintessential New Orleans sound, May 17, 2004

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jonne dendinger (New Orleans, LA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From New Orleans (Audio CD)

A woman who originated the starring role in one of Musical Theater's greatest revues ("One Mo' Time"), toured internationally, was a movie and television actress, a celebrated performer in Sweden, and performed for and rubbed elbows with the crowned heads of Europe, Sylvia "Kuumba" Williams was truly one of a kind. A voice that can conjure up images of steamy French Quarter alleys on humid August nights, Kuumba was and is the quintessential voice of the city that care forgot. From a gut wrenching rendition of "Precious Lord Take My Hand" that evokes images of a Jazz funeral winding it's mournful way through Treme to the downright bawdy, no-holds-barred spice of "Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On", this CD is a must for any listener who wishes to be transported to a time and place where the highlight of a hard day's work was to come home and sit on "the gall'ry" and pass the time with "the people from the neighborhood". Kuumba was a dear friend who was taken from us way too soon. Not only did she take me under her wing to share her musical talents with me, she taught me things about show business that help me to this day. How I miss our "real quick--I won't keep you long" four and five hour phone calls! Her mischievous sense of fun pervades this collection from top to bottom---try it, you won't be disappointed...God bless you Kuumba!

5.0 out of 5 stars Kuumba lives on as the Greatest, December 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: From New Orleans (Audio CD)

I only met Kuumba a few times but her spirit to live, sing and move lives on after her death. This CD is all Kuumba. You can not sit still while listening to her enchanting voice. From beginning to end this CD is wonderful. Listen to the clips. It is wonderful!!!!