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Michael White and his group are super. Dr. If you like New Orleans jazz, you'll want this CD. I've played this CD over and over a few hundred times. I still love it.
Some of the finest Classic Jazz to be found. Not a copy, but you know that it is for George Lewis. I enjoy Dr White and Greg Stafford on nearly everything that they do. Dr White pays tribute to a classic Jazz clarinetist, George Lewis. His rendition of "Just a Closer Walk" is done with great respect.
Dr.White plays his music with deep feelings, and his style of interpretation sets him apart from others in classical jazz. This CD represents Dr. My first encounter of New Orleans Jazz was in 3 years ago,when Dr. His music is always presented with great sensitivities, passions and respect to the tradition, through which one can imagine how New Orleans jazz might have been experienced in the old days. White's musical talents in preserving the beauty and spirit of traditional jazz in modern time. White and his band were invited as guest artists to OFAM's summer festival in Oregon. No music has ever touched me as profoundly as my first experience with what it came out of the clarinet played by a soft-spoken, scholar-looking jazz artist,who was gifted with a distinctive spirit.
What has this to do with the music. I worked with Dr. White on a couple of projects and he and his family always have been graceful and elegant in navigating this modern world with all its conflicts and contradictions. Dr. It is a clue for understanding that music that might be considered by some as naive and light hearted fun can have great depth and soul to communicate. Also he embodies more than just a person who has listened to and musically absorbed the creations of the early masters of New Orleans Jazz. White's PhD is in Spanish Literature not "Spanish". He also has a very human connection, being a part of the special New Orleans genteelness.
This is New Orleans music at its authentic best. This CD is a tribute to his inspiration, the great clarinetist, George Lewis and Lewis is somewhere up in heaven enjoying the performance. Buy this Cd and enjoy. This is a wonderful collection of authentic New Orleans Jazz inspired by the likes of Jellyroll Morton, Louis Armstrong and the giants of the genre. White who also boasts a PhD in Spanish and teaches the history of Jazz at a New Orleans university plays a mean clarinet.
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