Growing up in New Orleans means music gets deeply embedded in your soul. And when that music is tied to the grief of a relative, over and over, it is packed with emotion. These tracks like Down by the Riverside and Just a Closer Walk with Thee are the sounds played in New Orleans when someone has departed. In New Orleans, it isn't a sad thing so much as a celebration of someone's life..with a walking funeral playing jazz.

Track Listing

1. Introductory Narration
2. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
3. Down by the Riverside
4. As I Lay My Burden Down
5. Introductory Narration
6. In the Sweet By and By
7. Lead Me Savior
8. Walk Through the Streets of the City
9. Just a Closer Walk With Thee
10. Taps/Battle Hymn of the Republic
11. Introductory Narration
12. Didn't He Ramble
13. When the Saints Go Marching In
14. Feel So Good

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95482 in Music
• Released on: 1994-11-05
• Number of discs: 1

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Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to Dixieland Jazz Funeral.
The soulful narration of Milton Batiste combines with the unique style of the Magnificent Seventh's Brass Band to provide the listener with a very enjoyable first-hand account of a typical New Orleans jazz funeral. While a couple of the songs drag on a little longer than perhaps they should, this 70+ minute CD ended before I was ready for it to. It contains an excellent rendition of Just a Closer Walk With Thee in a funeral-dirge style. I would highly recommend this CD to any fan of dixieland music!

You want an album of NoLa Funeral? This is the one!
Of all the brass bands, even the old ones by the "original cats", this collection compares favorably. This is one of the rare occasions where you say the band is both loose and tight. (That is a good thing, my friend).

It has three parts, "Wake Service (Gospel)", "Funeral Procession (Dirge)", and "Joyous Send Off (Second Line)".

So you got it all.

Lawdy This Is Good Music!
What can match the experience of sitting down at the Cafe du Monde to a plate of beingets lightly dusted with white powdered sugar and a cup of black, black coffee made with chicory?

New Orleans is a state of mind. And, part of that experience is honest to goodness, get down Dixie Land jazz.

This is a wonderful cd that brings a bit of New Orleans along with it.

There is only one small criticism. Between songs there is a narrator who explains the different parts of a jazz funeral. The description would have been better written on the cover.

But that is a minimal criticism. The music is wonderful. It makes feet tap. It plants tunes in the brain that the listner will hum for many days.

The Dixie Land jazz on this cd is loaded higher than a muffelleta. And the music isn't fattening!