JAZZ FEST: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (5 CDS)

Few music festivals are as rich, profound, and joyous as the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, now entering it's 50th year. With 50 tracks recorded live, Jazz Fest captures the festival's ecstatic spontaneity, which defines the essence and vitality of American popular music. Ever since it's inception a half century ago, Jazz Fest has exuberantly expressed the unique confluence in New Orleans of Native American, African, Caribbean, European, Hispanic, and Asian communities. With essays and annotations by Keith Spera, Karen Celestan, Robert Cataliotti, Jeff Place, Rachel Lyons, and Jon Pareles, plus photos spanning the festival's history, this box set delivers the sights and sounds of being at Jazz Fest for those who have not yet been there, and rekindles memories for the hundreds of thousands who return to New Orleans year after year.

Indian Red - By the Golden Eagles
Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - By Larry McKinley
One Night Only (The March) - By Trombone Shorty
Free to Be - By Donald Harrison, JR
Basin Street Blues - By Danny Barker
A Streetcar Named Desire - By Terence Blanchard
Royal Garden Blues - By Kermit Ruffins Big Band
Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living / Rub a Little Boogie - By Champion Jack Dupree
Back Home Again in Indiana - By George Wein & Newport All-Stars
Louisiana 1927 - By John Boutte
Yes We Can Can - By Allen Toussaint
Trick Bag - By Earl King
Ruler of My Heart - By Irma Thomas
Dizzy Miss Lizzy - By Snooks Eaglin
Ain't Got No Home - By Clarence "Frogman" Henry
Big Chief Got the Golden Crown - By the White Eagles
Big Chief - By Professor Longhair
Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching in - By Dixie Cups
Red Beans - By Marcia Ball
Litanie Des Saints / Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk on Gilded Splinters - By Dr. John
How Ya Gonna Clap? - By Ray Hackett
Blackbird Special - By the Dirty Dozen Brass Band
Hey Now, Baby - By Henry Butler
Secret Love - By Germaine Bazzle & Red Tyler Quintet
Jazznocracy - By Al Belletto Big Band
Summertime - By Original Liberty Jazz Band
My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - By Preservation Hall Jazz Band
I Want to Be at That Meeting / Golden Gate Gospel Train - By the Zion Harmonizers
Old Rugged Cross - By Irma Thomas
Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus - By Raymond Myles & the Gospel Soul Children
I Can Go to God in Prayer - By Johnson Extension
Hard to Stop - By Buckwheat Zydeco
Paper in My Shoe - By Boozoo Chavis
Midland Two-Step - By the Savoy Family Cajun Band
Disco Et Fais Do-Do - By Bruce Daigrepont
Recherche D'acadie - By Beausoleil
Yellow Moon - By the Neville Brothers
When the Levee Breaks - By John Campbell
It Don't Mean a Doggone Thing - By John Mooney
Starlight Diamond / Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don't Have to Go / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Going T - By Kenny Neal
What Is Success - By Allen Toussaint & Bonnie Raitt
Double-Eyed Whammy - By Tommy Ridgley
Fire on the Bayou - By Funky Meters
Take the "A" Train - By Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Blue Moon Rising - By Walter "Wolfman" Washington
Happy Home - By Deacon John
Rain Alert - By Larry McKinley
Blue Tarp Blues - By Sonny Landreth
Back on Dumaine - By Anders Osborne
Thorn in Her Side - By the Subdudes
N.O. Bounce - By Big Freedia
Smoke My Peace Pipe - By Wild Magnolias
Amazing Grace / One Love - By the Neville Brothers