Various The Mercury New Orleans Sessions 1950 (2-LP)

(Bear Family Records®) 33 Tracks - Gatefold Cover

You hold in your hands a slice of New Orleans music history, a time capsule which is spilling all of its contents for the first time nearly years later. Listen to the pounding rhythms, the joyful shouts, and the truly inspired piano playing. Above all, listen to Roy Byrd, the one and only Professor Longhair, whose legend will be brought to an entirely new level by his spectacular recordings here.

Listen and you will know something of what it was like at the beginnings of New Orleans rhythm & blues .. . This album is dedicated to Vernon Winslow, who 40 years ago, on May 30, 1949, became New Orleans' first black disc jockey as "Dr. Daddy-O". On radio and in print, his words were the first about New Orleans Rhythm & Blues.