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Rare & Unreissued Jazzy Soul & Funk From the Vaults of Hot Line & Nola 1965-1970

Series: Bosses of the Big Easy Beat

99 Plus One

June Gardner
Night Train International CD 7103 Price: $8.99



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Tuff City/Night Train continues to explore the roots of funk & hip-hop by unveiling the Bosses Of The Big Easy Beat series, a three LP/CD set devoted to the pioneering jazzy soul & funk drummers of New Orleans in the 1960’s, whose rhythmic brilliance laid the groundwork for modern rhythm-driven hip-hop, jazz & R&B. Now available on CD for the first time is June Gardner’s “99 Plus One.” A stalwart of the annual New Orleans Jazzfest, Gardner first rose to fame touring with the Sam Cooke Band. Then on the heels of that legend’s death Gardner returned to New Orleans, where he recorded the locally-popular “Mustard Greens” & “99 Plus One” for the Hot Line label. The success of these tracks spurred further recordings, which featured the keyboard playing of New Orleans legend James Booker & the big-band arrangements of Wardell Quezerque. If Holland-Dozier-Holland had produced the Count Basie Band, that is what tracks like “Last Night” and “Hang On Sloopy” evoke. Consistent with Tuff City’s Indiana Jones-like cobbling together of material from disparate sources, this CD is rounded off with an extremely rare session from 1970 which complements Nola’s big band arrangements with a couple of spare yet jazzy and ultimately extraordinarily funky versions of “The Tennessee Waltz” & “The Jolly Little Meget.” A must for fans of jazzy soul & funk.

"an awesomely tough sound that’s well worthy of rediscovery."

-Off Beat

	Details	Audio		Trk	Song Title
				1	99 Plus One
				2	Last Night
				3	Hammerhead
				4	One Mint Julep
				5	Hot Seat
				6	Mustard Greens
				7	It's Gonna Rain
				8	Later Baby
				9	Hang On Sloopy
				10	Yesterday
				11	The Joker
				12	Tennessee Waltz (A)
				13	The Jolly Little Midget