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This is Jazz 30

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This is a big mix up. The case is for the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and the CD is Chick Corea. I asked that this listing be removed (I DID get a refund), but no one seems to have the power or initiative.

This album contains many of the Dirty Dozens best songs, and a must have. I just saw them Live at Fletchers in Baltimore, MD. last night. Amazingly good, much recommended

Doesn't exist any Return to Forever Romantic Warrior of DDBB. What it's shown in the catalogue picture is This is jazz vol.30, a very good collection of the first period of DDBB music, but Return to Forever is music recorded by the Romantic Warrior of Chick Corea in the '70. So for two times I received a cd with the front cover and the disc of the Romantic Warrior and the back cover of This is jazz vol.30 of the DDBB. It's supposed I will be refund but what I wanted was the DDBB record and I'm still without. Please change the catalogue or other customers will have my (and your) same problem.

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band is a very unique and diverse jazz ensemble. First of all, they are some of the finest musicians of the New Orleans jazz scene, evidenced by their improvisation and out-of-this-world musicianship, in every single instrumentation. But besides being incredible musicians, they are just as wonderful performers. They are funny, appealing, and impressive. A vocalist adds a humorous tone to their already happy sound, and the product is perfect. Yet while the Dirty Dozen represents the original true spirit of New Orleans jazz in most respects, they remain very accessible by often incorporating elements of hip hop and funk into their music. "Return to Forever Romantic Warrior" is "Vol. 30" in Sony's "This Is Jazz" series, covering the greatest musicians of the jazz genre. It is a collection spanning their four Columbia albums. The selection is well chosen, selecting songs that represent the group very well. This disc is pure fun, beautiful New Orleans jazz, and some of the finest at that. Highly recommended.

To listen to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band is think about NOLA, and it's hard to do that without sharing in a sense of loss. Who knows if the rebuilt iteration will resemble the original, or be some dreadful "theme-park" salute to Americana?

NOLA was always a quirky place, a port, at times more like a European city than an American one, steeped in decadence and vice, sophisticated, full of life, good food, and most of all, full of fabulous music. For those of us who love jazz, particularly brass, NOLA enjoys almost mythical status.

If NOLA is a state of mind, transcending hurricanes, this CD plants you right in the center of it and holds you there for 66 very solid minutes, there is no waste at all. You get outrageously catchy funk like Charlie's Dozen, Moose The Mooche, Gemini Rising, Remember When, and New Orleans Blues - tracks so infectious you will cakewalk right out of your house. Voodoo takes you somewhere else altogether, that's the mystery of NOLA, and The Lost Souls Of Southern Louisiana is an episodic 14 minute voyage that just might stretch all the way back to Africa - simply amazing.

Nice of Dr. John to sit in on It's All Over Now. Some very sly comedy too, including The Monkey, which has sardonic commentary from the animal kingdom, and Don't You Feel My Leg. Closing it with a straightforward rendition of Old Rugged Cross is just perfect. A wonderful CD that grew from the Mississippi mud. Get it.