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A Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane Relief 2005

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Length
  
73:53

Label
  
Rounder Records

Release date
  
18 October 2005

Genre
  
Jazz

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Released
  
October 18, 2005 (2005-10-18)

A Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane Relief 2005 is a benefit album, with tracks "from the vault" by an array of New Orleans artists.

Contents

A collection of recordings to celebrate New Orleans, moving from second-line brass band music and R&B to modern jazz, Mardi Gras Indian music and gospel, spanning 65 years of recording.

The proceeds will be given to the MusiCares Hurricane Relief Fund, providing assistance to musicians and other music industry people directly affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Track listing

*Liner notes by Branford Marsalis

Songs

1Mardi Gras in New OrleansDirty Dozen Brass Band5:26
2Something You GotDavell Crawford3:44
3Good to Be HomeHarry Connick Jr - Branford Marsalis6:25

References

A Celebration of New Orleans Music to Benefit MusiCares Hurricane Relief 2005 Wikipedia