CDs

CDs
Great Chefs Great Music with Charlie Byrd and the Charlie Byrd Ensemble
$9.99

Charlie Byrd began recording the Great Chefs soundtracks in 1983 with the San Francisco series. He continued contributing music through the Great Chefs of America and Great Chefs of the World series. Great Chefs, Great Music is a compilation of the best melodies from many series. Prepare a great meal, pour the wine, and put on this album. This is Great Music!

CDs
New Orleans Jazz Brunch – The Alvin Alcorn Trio
$9.99

In the 1920s, a similar version of today’s Jazz Brunch took place when New Orleans families took a train via Elysian Fields Avenue to their beach houses at Lake Pontchartrain and Milneberg. With them they brought their won jazz bands which they would hire for the weekend. Two regular musicians with those trains were Louis Armstrong and Alvin Alcorn. It was not unusual in those days to have 40 or 50 bands playing in a given area at the same time. Most often these bands would play through the night and well into the morning breakfast hour.

Fifty years later, in 1976, when this album was first recorded, Alvin Alcorn still put the “Jazz” in Jazz Brunch. Then playing trumpet for over 50 years, he performed weekends at Commander’s Palace; during the week you might find him at historic Preservation Hall, in New York playing a television special, or even in Europe performing before a king or a president.

CDs
New Orleans’ Cooking With Jazz
$9.99

Charlie Byrd began recording the Great Chefs soundtracks in 1983 with the San Francisco series. He continued contributing music through the Great Chefs of America and Great Chefs of the World series. Great Chefs, Great Music is a compilation of the best melodies from many series. Prepare a great meal, pour the wine, and put on this album. This is Great Music!