Thoughts on a New Orleans groove .

    I dj'd a 'Fat-Tuesday' party and tried to  pick the best songs I could to not only rock the house but to
display the wide variety of down grooves that eminate from that special place on the globe . It was tough,
and a bit rushed as I only dreamed this up a week before , although I've listened to and lived much of
what I wanted to play/say from long ago .  I knew that Professor Longhair would have to open with Tipitina for  representing not just the spirit of The Big Easy but for what he's passed on through the likes
of Allen Toussaint and Dr. John .  With the Neville Brothers carrying the heart and new street bands with
ties to old school sounds like the Dirty Dozen  and Rebirth , not to mention young lions like Trombone
Shorty filling the body of what is funky about New Orleans R&B .  I wanted to highlight Louis Armstrong as I built steam to more modern innovations with the brass band format as well as pay homage to the spiriual side with sounds that reach back through the Islands to Mother Africa .
     To hear just this was enough for one set , too much to digest but that it touches your soul , the heavy,
changing rythmns , polyphonic is what they may call it but does not describe they inner awareness that
this music can awaken .  To hear it and know , deep down that this is true ;  that we live as much as we
are able to Love , and can receive only as we are able to give . That inside comune is the begginning to
sharing with everyone .  Shango ,ma Ra '  . 
    That's all I wanted to say for now .  Not that many people attended ;  too little notice given and too
many other things going on .  Also , perhaps too little known about what an avant / old school Fat Tues.
party minght sound/look like .  Still , we few had a great time in a fantastic space , and danced like there
was no tommorow ...  as though it were forever Now .  I do this to keep that sharing going .
    I'm going to post the first set and should say there were directions I took based on my present intellect combined with my best but limited intuition . Many other artist made it into the later
sets and some were reused for the pandimonium they lent to the ebb and flow of the sound . I hope you enjoy it .
        I called this group of songs/artists  ;  Avant/Tradional  ,  which is what great music does , building on what's been given , but saying something new .   This music runs about 1.5 hrs.

       * Professor Longhair -  Tipitina  ,  *  Dirty Dozen B.B. -   Mardi Gras in New Orleans  , 
* Fats Domino -  medley,  Go to the Mardi Gras ,  Walkin' to New Orleans ,  Blue Monday  ,
* Curley Moore -  Get Low Down  ,    * Lee Dorsey -  Everything I do gohn' be funky  , 
* Allen Toussaint  -  Last Train ,  Tequila ,  West End Blues  ,  * Dr. John -  medley,  Rockin' Pneumonia ,  High Blood Pressure  ,  * Buckwheat Zydeco -  Ma'tit file  ,   * Wild Tchopatulas'  -
Hey Hey ( Indians Comin' )  ,  * Dewey Balfa -  Pine Grove Blues  ,  * Dixie Cups -  Iko  Iko  ,
* Neville Bros. -  Voodoo  ,   *A. Toussaint -  Egyptian Fantasy  ,  * Carl Le Blanc -  On Super Sunday   ,   * Dr John -  My Indian Red  ,   * Charles Sheffeild -  It's your voodoo working   ,
* Wyclef Jean -  Carnival  ,  * King Sunny Ade -  Sunny Ti De Ariya  ,  * Raices Habaneras -
 Eleggua   ,   * Dr, John - Litenie des Saints   .

   It's been said that we do not see the world as it is ,  we see things as we are  .  Be as deep and as
joyfilled as you possibly can .  Find your fun 'and ' your soul in the music .   PEACE ,   Mikl