The first recording by trombonist
Wilbur DeParis'
"New New Orleans Jazz Band"
(although it was actually released after their 1955 session) is full of fresh and lively Dixieland.
DeParis
and his all-stars (cornetist
Sidney DeParis
, clarinetist
Omer Simeon
, pianist
Don Kirkpatrick
, banjoist
Eddie Gibbs
, bassist
Harold Jackson
and drummer
Freddie Moore
) play a wide variety of material which includes the leader's colorful "Martinique," "Under the Double Eagle,"
Rachmaninoff's
"Prelude in C Sharp Minor," a couple of
Jelly Roll Morton
tunes and "When the Saints Go Marching In"; the second part of the latter is taken at a blistering tempo. The
band was one of the most consistently inventive Dixieland-oriented groups of the 1950s, so it is very unfortunate that its valuable Atlantic LPs are all long out-of-print. ~ Scott Yanow