New Orleans Jukebox Gold 1/ Var - New Orleans Jukebox Gold 1 / Various AEC Music Mascagni is almost obsessively attentive

Mascagni is almost obsessively attentive to recitative and his exemplary flexibility at times recalls the sublime "conversation style" "invented" by Puccini

featuring "Ich bin in mir vergnügt" BWV 204 and "Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut" BWV 199 (Weimar version

Pianist Steven Philcox

and recorded a host of great records for Capitol himself

New Orleans Jukebox Gold 1/ Var - New Orleans Jukebox Gold 1 / Various AEC Music Mascagni is almost obsessively attentiveFans of New Orleans R&B will have much to rejoice about here with this interesting compilation. Most of the artists featured here are New Orleans all stars such as Aaron Neville, Lee Dorsey, Ernie K Doe and Earl King. Other artists in a similar vein such as guitarists Frankie Lee Sims and Elmore James are not New Orleans natives but their singles included here came out on New Orleans labels and were big hits in the Crescent City and fit well