Throwback

Throwback Artist: Kermit Ruffins & Rebirth Brass Band
Label: Basin Street Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 652905010525
EAN: 0652905010525
ASIN: B0007Y093C


Release Date: 2005-04-05

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Listmania:

  1. Music You Need To Own
  2. A Musical Tribute to New Orleans

Tracks:

  1. Make Way For The Rebirth
  2. Mr. Big Stuff
  3. Here To Stay
  4. Mardi Gras Day
  5. It's Later Than You Think
  6. Happy Weekday Blues
  7. I Got A Woman
  8. What Is New Orleans Part 2
  9. Just A Closer Walk With Thee
  10. Happy Birthday
  11. Rebirth Medley: My Song, Pie Pt. 2, Mexican Special
  12. Up In Tha Hood
  13. Untitled

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  1. The Barbecue Swingers Live
  2. Putumayo Presents: Kermit Ruffins
  3. Big Easy
  4. Ultimate Rebirth Brass Band
  5. Feel Like Funkin' It Up

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Let the good times roll with Kermit.......2005-07-21

If you want to get a taste of street band, foot tapping, jigging music, Throwback is for you. Kermit teams up with the ever so awesome Rebirth Brass Brand to produce a sound that is reminicent of good times in the Big Easy.

"It's Later Than You Think", Ray Charles' "I Got A Woman", and "What is New Orleans" are my personal favorites. The CD is just host to great musicians who show their enthusiasm and chops through the CD. Recording this thing must have been one big party. The ONLY weird spot? The last song, "Up In Tha Hood"--clearly a lot of fun for the band, but a little scary for the rest of us who are used to straight up brass band and not Kermit as Master P...otherwise, an exceptional CD from, by the way, a great example of a local record label--Basin Street puts out some great local artists. Check out their other artists-- Los Hombres Calientes w/ Bill Summers and Irvin Mayfield, Theresa Anderson, and Dr. Michael White, to name a few.

5 out of 5 stars Ruffins Goes Full Circle.......2005-07-15

I guess Rebirth is the perfect name for his Brass Band after all. After a long and successful stint with his Barbecue Swingers, Kermit Ruffins has rejoined the Rebirth Brass Band for this delightful funky blue CD. If there was ever such a thing as fraternity rock, New Orleans Style, this would be it. It is obvious that these pieces have all been well polished in regular club dates. From the Happy Weekday Blues to his cover on I Got a Woman, it is clear that his years as a working live performer have given him the confidence to make a studio take sound as easy as a march down Bourbon Street. I will always admire his work with the Barbecue Swingers and how Louis and Muggsy would have loved to have heard him. Even though he shifted music gears, Ruffins didn't disappoint the trad fans with his funeral pacing on the dixieland classic Just a Closer Walk With Thee. This is a delightful party CD. The highlight of the entire project may well be his lively second line strutter, It's Later Than You Think. It is almost impossible not to dance to it. For pure fun, this CD is higly recommended.

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  2. The Dave Brubeck Quartet at Carnegie Hall ~ Dave Brubeck
  3. New Vintage ~ Maynard Ferguson
  4. Fire Wire ~ Larry Carlton
  5. Page One ~ Joe Henderson
  6. Swingin' With Style
  7. Nice & Slow ~ Brian Culbertson
  8. Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz ~ Bill Evans
  9. The Best of Earl Klugh ~ Earl Klugh
  10. That's Where It's At ~ Stanley Turrentine

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Missionless Days ~ Kepler

North ~ Elvis Costello

Too Much for Your Heart ~ Gorilla

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