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Professor Longhair - New Orleans Piano (1953)

Track listing:
  1. In The Night 2:30
  2. Tipitina 2:21
  3. Tipitina 2:36
  4. Ball The Wall 3:15
  5. Who's Been Fooling You 2:08
  6. Hey Now Baby 2:54
  7. Mardi Gras In New Orleans 2:51
  8. She Walks Right In 3:06
  9. Hey Little Girl 3:00
  10. Willie Mae 2:45
  11. Walk Your Blues Away 2:54
  12. Professor Longhair Blues 2:26
  13. Boogie Woogie 2:38
  14. Longhair's Blues-Rhumba 3:11
  15. Mardi Gras In New Orleans 2:50
  16. She Walks Right In 2:48

Notes

All 16 of the Atlantic sides from 1949 and 1953 (including a handful of alternate takes) on one glorious disc. Longhair's work for the label was notoriously marvelous — this version of "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" reeks of revelry in the streets of the French Quarter; "She Walks Right In" and "Walk Your Blues Away" ride a bedrock boogie, and "In the Night" bounces atop a parade-beat shuffle groove and hard-charging saxes.