Pure Dixieland Explained

Pure Dixieland
Type:	Album
Artist:	Harry Connick Jr.
Cover:	HCjr Pure Dixieland.jpg
Released:	1979
Recorded:	New Orleans: November 4, 11, 1978
Genre:	Piano, Dixieland
Length:	28:41
Label:	Sony/Columbia
Producer:	James Duggan
Prev Title:	Dixieland Plus
Prev Year:	1977
Next Title:	Harry Connick Jr.
Next Year:	1987

Pure Dixieland is a mostly instrumental album of traditional New Orleans classics, from an ensemble of New Orleans jazz masters, including a young Harry Connick Jr. at the age of eleven.

The album was originally released in 1979, titled Pure Dixieland. It was re-released in November 1992 as Eleven.^[1]

Track listing

1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey, Ben Bernie) – 4:39
2. "Tin Roof Blues" (Walter Melrose, Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel) – 2:55
3. "Wolverine Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton, Benjamin Spikes, John Spikes) – 3:06
4. "Jazz Me Blues" (Tom Delaney) – 3:04
5. "Doctor Jazz" (Joe "King" Oliver, Melrose) – 3:27
6. "Muskrat Ramble" (Ray Gilbert, Kid Ory) – 2:39
7. "Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:48
8. "Joe Avery's Piece" (Traditional) – 3:11
9. "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (Joe Turner Layton, Henry Creamer) – 2:46

Musicians

• Harry Connick Jr. – piano, vocals on "Doctor Jazz"
• Jim Duggan – trombone
• Liston Johnson – clarinet
• Freddie Kohlman – drums
• Walter Payton – bass
• Tedd Riley – trumpet

External links

• Eleven, at harryconnickjr.com

Notes and References

1. https://ew.com/article/1992/11/27/25/ 25 (1992) Harry Connick Jr.