New Profs of Pleasure CD.

Finally, finally, available online and at  the Louisiana Music Factory on Decatur here in the French Quarter. http://www.louisianamusicfactory.com/showoneprod.asp?ProductID=6935 Here's a cut and paste of the liner notes as they appear on the inside CD cover: Welcome to "Volume Two," the second offering from the Professors of Pleasure, Tulane University's Jazz Faculty band. In addition to some jazz standards ("Half Nelson," "This I Dig of You"), a sumptuous ballad ("Nancy with the Laughing Face") and a 'second-line' version of the rallying cry for Tulane's Green Wave football team ("Tulane Fight Song"), we've also thrown in a number of originals from band members as well as two tracks by the great New Orleans composer, musician and jazz educator Harold Battiste. This last marks the beginning of a commitment on our part to showcase as many 'modern' New Orleans jazz compositions as possible. The history of jazz in New Orleans does not begin and end with the 'traditional' form of the music. Rather it s a continuously growing and evolving entity, encompassing many genres and styles, not the least of which include the modernisms of the post-war period and the vigorous and contemporary 'second-line' culture which can still be found, vibrant and alive, on the streets of this great city. John Doheny New Orleans January 2010. As usual, many a slip between the cup and the lip on this one, but it's finally out there. I'm already planning the next one, which I hope will incorporate new faculty hires Edward Anderson (trumpet) and Deleayo Marsalis (trombone). These CDs are proving to be a terrific way to showcase what the Tulane jazz performance faculty can do. Volumes one and two have both ended up being sort of "omnibus" recordings, where we've tried to include as many different kinds of tunes as possible (funk, straight-ahead, jazz standards, fusion etc.) but the addition of Delfeayo and Edward will give us a four-horn 'mini-big-band' front line, and an opportunity to more fully show off the arranging talent we have on staff.