Made in New Orleans: The Hurricane Sessions [CD/DVD] (2007)

About this title: In January 2006 Benjamin Jaffe drove to what was left of Seasaint Recording Studios in New Orleans to see what damage the flood waters that followed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina some four months earlier had wrought on the facility, hoping more than anything to salvage whatever master tapes he could. Amazingly, although most of the studio's tape vault was destroyed, he found the masters for the sessions his father, Allan Jaffe, had produced in the 1970s with the classic lineup of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band still intact a mere inches above the waterline. Refurbished, those tapes form ... read more

Tracks:

1. Radio Intro: Let Us Make a Record for My Lord/Everybody Knows You Dance [Traditional]
2. How Long Blues [Traditional]
3. Eh La Bah [Traditional]
4. Band Introduction [Traditional]
5. Apple Tree [Traditional]
6. Complicated Life [Davies]
7. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? [Delange/Alter]
8. Intro [Traditional]
9. Lord I Don't Want to Be Buried in the Storm [Traditional]
10. Over in the Gloryland [Traditional]
11. Heebie Jeebies [Traditional]
12. Blow Wind Blow [Traditional]
13. Sugar Blues [Traditional]
14. I Can't Give You Anything But Love [McHugh/Fields]
15. Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well? [Traditional]
16. Precious Lord [Traditional]
17. Last Chance to Dance [Traditional]
18. Complicated Life [DVD]
19. Early News Reel [DVD]
20. Brinkley News Hour, 1961 [DVD]
21. Newport Jazz Festival [DVD]
22. German TV News Reel, 1960s [DVD]
23. German TV News Reel, Pt. 2 [DVD]
24. George Lewis Allstars, "Redwing" [DVD]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.