Al Hirt Our Man In New Orleans (CD)

(1992/BMG) 12 tracks -

"It may astound listeners who were not around in the 60s to realize just how big Al Hirt was. I don't mean simply in terms of physical size - although Hirt had both the girth and the demeanor of a Kris Kringle - but also in terms of accep-tance by the general public. Hirt was a major star at the time Our Man In New Orleans was recorded in 1962 and, over the next three years he would reach career pinnacles with best-selling pop singles and even his own network televi-sion show. Without question. he was the best known and most commercially suc-cessful trumpeter to emerge from New Orleans between Louis Armstrong's depar-ture for Chicago in the 1920s and Wynton Marsalis' ascension six decades later..."