The Secret Six are a New Orleans traditional jazz band evoking the rich style of collective improvisation and ensemble playing. Specializing in stomps, blueses, rags and no frills hot jazz.

偉大的James Booker，被稱為紐奧良鋼琴王子，新月城·紐奧良音樂傳奇的奠基人之一，也是最多姿多彩的人物之一。他是一個與眾不同的鍵盤手，將R&B、福音、布魯斯、boogie-woogie、傳統和現代爵士樂融合成一種獨特的音樂。
這張CD包含了Booker在1954年到1962年的職業生涯初期，為Imperial、Chess、Ace和Peacock等廠牌所錄製的所有單曲。還包含了James Booker為其他傑出藝術家擔任伴奏的曲目。

Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” is the legendary group’s rendition of the black national anthem, recorded for MLK/FBI, the forthcoming Critics’ Choice award winner for “Best Archival Documentary” and multiple IDA-award nominee.

Allen Toussaint was an American musician, songwriter, arranger and record producer, who was an influential figure in New Orleans rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the end of the century, described as "one of popular music's great backroom figures".

Missing second-lining? Quarantine and chill with this new Shamarr Allen song - WDSU

“All jazz is modern,” says Wynton Marsalis—and we owe the 1950s for that. The momentous decade became the crucible in which modern jazz was formed, as styles like modal, hard bop, third stream, and more melted together and artists like Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Ornette Coleman reached the height of their powers. Now, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra trombonist Chris Crenshaw has taken inspiration from the era to create The Fifties: A Prism, the newest Blue Engine album. - by JAZZ.org

A Tuba To Cuba follows Ben Jaffe of New Orleans’ famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band as he seeks to fulfill his late father’s dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz. A Tuba To Cuba celebrates the triumph of the human spirit expressed through the universal language of music and challenges us to resolve to build bridges, not walls.
from Sub Pop website

Credits
Bass – Jerome Hunter
Drums – Ray Mosca
Engineer – Gus Statiras*, James Mason (5)
Liner Notes [Text By] – George David Weiss
Photography By [Cover Photograph By] – Lauren Deutsch
Piano – Dorothy Donegan
Producer – Gus "Grant" Statiras*

Full title The Best of Miles Davis and John Coltrane 1955-1961. Japanese edition of 2001 compilation includes one exclusive bonus track 'Stella By Stars'.

Credits
Alto Saxophone – Stump Evans (tracks: 8, 9), Walter Thomas (tracks: 18, 19)
Banjo – Barney Alexander (tracks: 18, 19), Unknown Artist (tracks: 21)
Banjo, Guitar – Johnny St. Cyr (tracks: 1 to 7), Lee Blair (tracks: 12 to 15, 17)
Bass – John Lindsay (tracks: 1 to 7)
Clarinet – Barney Bigard (tracks: 3, 20), Darnell Howard (tracks: 3), Ernie Bullock* (tracks: 21), George Baquet (tracks: 18, 19), Jerry Blake (tracks: 21), Johnny Dodds (tracks: 10, 11), Johnny Dodds (tracks: 8, 9), Omer Simeon (tracks: 1 to 7, 12 to 16), Russell Procope (tracks: 17)
Cornet – George Mitchell (3) (tracks: 1 to 9)
Drums – Andrew Hilaire (tracks: 1 to 7), Baby Dodds (tracks: 8 to 11), Manzie Johnson (tracks: 17), Tommy Benford (tracks: 12 to 16, 21), William Laws (tracks: 18, 19), Zutty Singleton (tracks: 20)
Guitar – Barnard Addision (tracks: 21), Bud Scott (tracks: 8, 9)
Piano – Jelly Roll Morton
Soprano Saxophone – Paul Barnes (2) (tracks: 17, 18, 19)
Tenor Saxophone – Joe Garland (tracks: 17), Joe Thomas (6) (tracks: 18, 19)
Trombone – Charlie Irvis (tracks: 18, 19), Geechie Fields (tracks: 12 to 15), Gerald Reeves (tracks: 8, 9), Kid Ory (tracks: 1 to 7), Wilbur De Paris (tracks: 21), William Cato (tracks: 17)
Trumpet – Red Rossiter* (tracks: 18, 19), Bubber Miley (tracks: 21), David Richards (12) (tracks: 18, 19), Ed Anderson (tracks: 17), Edwin Swayzee (tracks: 17), Walter Briscoe (tracks: 18, 19), Ward Pinkett (tracks: 12 to 15, 21)
Tuba – Bass Moore (tracks: 17), Bill Benford (tracks: 12 to 15, 21), Harry Prather (tracks: 18, 19), Quinn Wilson (tracks: 8, 9)