steviefromalaska
08-01-2017, 06:42 AM
New Orleans, Louisiana probably has more nicknames than any other American city, including The City that Care Forgot, The Big Easy, The Birth Place of Jazz, The Paris of the New World, America’s Most Interesting City (which it certainly is) and the name most residents have referred to it for the last four centuries, The Crescent City. New Orleans is called the Crescent City because the original town-the Vieux Carr�, also called the French Quarter, was built at a sharp bend in the Mississippi River.
In 1957 band leader Paul Weston, also a seasoned arranger and composer, debuted his CRECENT CITY: The Music of New Orleans Suite and recorded it with his Orchestra. It remained in the Columbia Records catalog in one form or another until the 1980s and was released on CD by Weston’s widow, the singer Jo Stafford, on their Corinthian label in 1993. Unfortunately the CD was a straight transfer from Columbia’s LP tape master and has less than stellar sound. This new remastering is from a 50 year old but superior acetate reel to reel copy of the master tape and allows one to hear this classic recording in improved sound. To fill this program out to CD length, this download also includes Andre Kostelantez’s excellent 1964 musical tribute to the Crescent City, NEW ORLEANS WONDERLAND, DSD archived from a reasonably clean LP and preserved in digital with all of its Columbia “360 Sound” Stereo glory intact. Over one hour of great music celebrating New Orleans, still America’s most interesting and most musical city.
CRESCENT CITY & NEW ORLEANS WONDERLAND
MP3 (320 kbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/n8f045
In 1957 band leader Paul Weston, also a seasoned arranger and composer, debuted his CRECENT CITY: The Music of New Orleans Suite and recorded it with his Orchestra. It remained in the Columbia Records catalog in one form or another until the 1980s and was released on CD by Weston’s widow, the singer Jo Stafford, on their Corinthian label in 1993. Unfortunately the CD was a straight transfer from Columbia’s LP tape master and has less than stellar sound. This new remastering is from a 50 year old but superior acetate reel to reel copy of the master tape and allows one to hear this classic recording in improved sound. To fill this program out to CD length, this download also includes Andre Kostelantez’s excellent 1964 musical tribute to the Crescent City, NEW ORLEANS WONDERLAND, DSD archived from a reasonably clean LP and preserved in digital with all of its Columbia “360 Sound” Stereo glory intact. Over one hour of great music celebrating New Orleans, still America’s most interesting and most musical city.
CRESCENT CITY & NEW ORLEANS WONDERLAND
MP3 (320 kbps): https://www.sendspace.com/file/n8f045