Mahogany
Hall Stomp released in October 2009
The
CD is available at the Louisiana
Music Factory in New Orleans and at Digelius
in Helsinki and on iTunes, and
CD Baby.
Listen @ MySpace.
"Musicianship
is solid all around." Zachary
Young, OffBeat 2/2010
"Spirit
Of New Orleans has this music down to a science." Zachary
Young, OffBeat 2/2010
"SONO's
style shines through best on playful tracks like "Esko's Delight",
tight, witty composition that benefits from the clarity of the group's
sound." Zachary Young,
OffBeat 2/2010
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SPIRIT
OF NEW
ORLEANS - MAHOGANY
HALL STOMP
SONOP
1650
SONO's latest CD
Mahogany Hall Stomp was recorded in June 2009 in Kirkkonummi, Finland and
mixed and mastered in New Orleans. The CD contains 13 songs, hailing mostly
from the early years of the 20the century.
Mahogany
Hall Stomp
- 4:04 Spencer
Williams
Darktown Strutter's
Ball - 4:46 Shelton
Brooks
Esko's Delight - 3:35 Leroy
Jones
Ain't Nobody's Business
If I Do - 5:05 Porter
Grainger, Everett Robbins
St. Louis Blues
- 8:27 W.C
Handy
Careless Love - 6:30 Traditional
On The
Sunny Side Of The
Street - 3:12 Jimmy
McHugh
Old Rugged Cross
- 4:09 Traditional
Bourbon Street
Parade - 6:56
Paul
Barbarin
Amazing Grace - 5:19 Traditional
Just A
Closer Walk
With Thee - 7:12 Traditional
St. James Infirmary - 5:14
Traditional
That's A
Plenty - 5:30 Lew
Pollack
Total time 70:33
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SPIRIT
OF
NEW
ORLEANS
Katja Toivola - trombone
Risto Salmi - saxophones & clarinet
Jarkko Palokas - guitar
Jussi Harju - sousaphone
Thomas Rönnholm - drums
SPECIAL
GUESTS
Eeppi Ursin - vocals
Leroy Jones - trumpet
& vocals
Mari Watanabe- piano
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Recorded
by Robert de Godzinsky at SoundTeam Godzinsky Studio, Kirkkonummi, June 15
and 16, 2009
Mixed by Tim Stambaugh at Word Of Mouth Studio, New Orleans
Mastered by David Farrell
Produced by Katja Toivola and Leroy Jones
Executive producer Esko Matilainen
Graphic design by Katja Toivola, kamtoivola@aol.com
Photos by Mitja Harvilahti
(c)(p)
2009 Spirit Of New Orleans Productions
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SONO's
Some Of These Days released
in May 2006
SONO's
CD Some
Of These Days, featuring Eeppi Ursin and Leroy Jones, was released at
Jazz Club Storyville in Helsinki on May 20, 2006. You can buy it at CD
Baby, at the Louisiana
Music Factory in New Orleans and at Digelius
in Helsinki.
Review
of Some Of These Days (OffBeat Magazine, 1/2007) can be found here.
Listen
to Some Of These Days @ SONO's MySpace
Listen
to Some Of These Days @ SONO's MySpace
SONO's first CD was released at the Kalott Jazz &
Blues Festival 2002
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Spirit
Of New Orleans' CD Bogalusa Strut was released at the Kalott Jazz &
Blues Festival in Tornio, Finland on June 29, 2002. In addition to the
band's basic line-up the CD features New Orleans' great Leroy Jones on
trumpet and vocals and Finnish singer Susanna Mesiä.
Bogalusa
Strut
contains 12 numbers: nine New Orleans jazz classics, Charlie Parker's Barbados
played as Jamaican ska and two latin-influenced instrumental compositions.
The
material of the CD comes from various eras: the title cut Bogalusa Strut was
initially recorded already in 1927 and the Leroy Jones composition Carnival's
In Town is from 1994. The interpretations aim at freshness, after all, jazz
has always been a music that reflects the changing times.
Bogalusa
Strut is produced by Spirit Of New Orleans. The distributor in Finland is Digelius
(Laivurinrinne
2, 00120 Helsinki, +358-9-666 375). In the United States the CD is being sold by
for example the Louisiana Music
Factory.
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Bogalusa Strut (SONO - 1)
Spirit Of New Orleans with special guests Susanna
Mesiä and Leroy Jones
Leroy
Jones: trumpet and vocals • Susanna Mesiä: vocals • Risto Salmi: saxophone
• Katja Toivola: trombone • Jarkko Palokas: guitar • Jussi Harju:
sousaphone
• Thomas Rönnholm: drums
1.
Bogalusa Strut (Traditional) 2.
Girl Of My Dreams (Clapp) 3.
El Manicero (Simons) 4. Paul
Barbarin's Second Line (Barbarin) 5.
Exactly Like You (McHugh) 6.
Panama Rag (Tyers) 7. Last
Night On The Back Porch (Traditional)
8. Barbados (Parker) 9.
Bye Bye Blues (Hamm; Bennett; Lown; Gray)
10. Carnival's In Town (Jones)
11. How Come You Do Me Like You Do (Traditional)
12. John Casimir's Whoopin Blues (Traditional)
Recorded live at Jazz Club
Storyville, in Helsinki, Finland, February 6, 2002.
Further
information:
kamtoivola@aol.com
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