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Jazz Fest: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival - Various Artists 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.

1. Indian Red - By the Golden Eagles 2. Welcome to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival - By Larry McKinley 3. One Night Only (The March) - By Trombone Shorty 4. Free to Be - By Donald Harrison, JR 5. Basin Street Blues - By Danny Barker 6. A Streetcar Named Desire - By Terence Blanchard 7. Royal Garden Blues - By Kermit Ruffins Big Band 8. Bring Me Flowers While I'm Living / Rub a Little Boogie - By Champion Jack Dupree 9. Back Home Again in Indiana - By George Wein ; Newport All-Stars 10. Louisiana 1927 - By John Boutte 11. Yes We Can Can - By Allen Toussaint 12. Trick Bag - By Earl King 13. Ruler of My Heart - By Irma Thomas 14. Dizzy Miss Lizzy - By Snooks Eaglin 15. Ain't Got No Home - By Clarence "Frogman" Henry 16. Big Chief Got the Golden Crown - By the White Eagles 17. Big Chief - By Professor Longhair 18. Iko Iko / Brother John / Saints Go Marching in - By Dixie Cups 19. Red Beans - By Marcia Ball 20. Litanie Des Saints / Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya / I Walk on Gilded Splinters - By Dr. John 21. How Ya Gonna Clap? - By Ray Hackett 22. Blackbird Special - By the Dirty Dozen Brass Band 23. Hey Now, Baby - By Henry Butler 24. Secret Love - By Germaine Bazzle ; Red Tyler Quintet 25. Jazznocracy - By Al Belletto Big Band 26. Summertime - By Original Liberty Jazz Band 27. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It - By Preservation Hall Jazz Band 28. I Want to Be at That Meeting / Golden Gate Gospel Train - By the Zion Harmonizers 29. Old Rugged Cross - By Irma Thomas 30. Can't Nobody Do Me Like Jesus - By Raymond Myles ; the Gospel Soul Children 31. I Can Go to God in Prayer - By Johnson Extension 32. Hard to Stop - By Buckwheat Zydeco 33. Paper in My Shoe - By Boozoo Chavis 34. Midland Two-Step - By the Savoy Family Cajun Band 35. Disco Et Fais Do-Do - By Bruce Daigrepont 36. Recherche D'acadie - By Beausoleil 37. Yellow Moon - By the Neville Brothers 38. When the Levee Breaks - By John Campbell 39. It Don't Mean a Doggone Thing - By John Mooney 40. Starlight Diamond / Jimmy Reed Medley: You Don't Have to Go / Baby, What You Want Me to Do / Going T - By Kenny Neal 41. What Is Success - By Allen Toussaint ; Bonnie Raitt 42. Double-Eyed Whammy - By Tommy Ridgley 43. Fire on the Bayou - By Funky Meters 44. Take the "A" Train - By Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 45. Blue Moon Rising - By Walter "Wolfman" Washington 46. Happy Home - By Deacon John 47. Rain Alert - By Larry McKinley 48. Blue Tarp Blues - By Sonny Landreth 49. Back on Dumaine - By Anders Osborne 50. Thorn in Her Side - By the Subdudes 51. N.O. Bounce - By Big Freedia 52. Smoke My Peace Pipe - By Wild Magnolias 53. Amazing Grace / One Love - By the Neville Brothers