Here’s a trumpet player we’ve heard from before. He was a favorite of my dad’s. He’s also a favorite of mine. He’s loud and powerful. He plays at just below a blatting level, but keeps in control with some of the most intricate music.
He performed at halftime of the first Super Bowl and owned his own New Orleans jazz club.
So get ready to hear a musician who could shift gears to play many styles of music, even being critiqued for that skill, in Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn.
More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it.
Credits and copyrights
Al Hirt – The Best Of Dixieland Jazz
Label: Longines Symphonette Society – LWCP 1, Longines Symphonette Society – LWS 332
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Promo
Released: 1968
Genre: Jazz
Style: Dixieland
We'll hear 6 of the 10 songs on this album.
Darktown Strutters Ball
Written by Shelton Brooks
Stumblin'
Written by Zez Confrey
Wang Wang Blues
Written by Henry Busse
I Can't Get Started With You
Written by Vernon Duke
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Traditional
Chicago
Written by Fred Fisher
I do not own the rights to this music. ASCAP, BMI licenses provided by third-party platforms for music that is not under Public Domain.
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