| The Bright Mississippi | 
| Artist: Allen Toussaint
Label: Nonesuch
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Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 336
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 075597992878
EAN: 0075597992878
ASIN: B001PSQGQI
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Egyptian Fantasy | | • | Dear Old Southland | | • | St. James Infirmary | | • | Singin' the Blues | | • | Winin' Boy Blues | | • | West End Blues | | • | Blue Drag | | • | Just a Closer Walk with Thee | | • | Bright Mississippi | | • | Day Dream | | • | Long, Long Journey | | • | Solitude |
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Product Description
Through his work as producer, composer, arranger and consummate session man, New Orleans native Allen Toussaint has truly earned
living-legend status. He's collaborated on landmark recordings for such artists as Ernie K. Doe, Lee Dorsey, Dr. John, the Meters, the
Pointer Sisters and Labelle and released acclaimed albums of his own. The 70 year-old pianist, already a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Inductee, was the recipient, on the recent Grammy Awards telecast, of the Recording Academy s prestigious Trustee Award, honoring a lifetime in the studio, both behind the scenes and in front of the mic. On The Bright Mississippi, his Nonesuch debut, Toussaint continues to break new ground with his first jazz-oriented set, displaying the same effortless swing and relaxed charm he brought to his classic rock and roll sides. He salutes Big Easy stars of a previous generation, the jazz greats who, in the early 20th century, built the genre from the ground up and turned the ears of the world to New Orleans.
Album Description
2009 release from the New Orleans legend. On The Bright Mississippi Toussaint continues to break new ground with his first Jazz-oriented set, displaying the same effortless swing and relaxed charm he brought to his classic Rock 'N' Roll sides. Backed by an all-star combo that sounds like a group of old friends, Toussaint reinterprets classic Jazz and Blues tunes popularized or written by such New Orleans greats as Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton and Joe King Oliver, as well as pieces composed by fellow travelers Django Reinhardt, Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk. He accedes the producer's chair to trusted friend Joe Henry, who sat behind the board for Toussaint's contributions to Our New Orleans, Nonesuch Records' best-selling 2005 benefit disc aiding Katrina hurricane victims.
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Superb in Every Way!!!! June 17, 2010
Rebecca L. Rowley (Watertown, MA)
I am blown away by Bright Mississippi and want to hear it again and again. The St James Infirmary track rocked my soul!! Allen Toussaint is a musical genius and soul. I can't wait to get on down to New Orleans again soon to see him perform. Toussaint carries the essence of collaboration; seamless and natural!!!
NO music June 8, 2010
Nicholas A. Danna III (N.O.)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Alan Toussaint is a NO legend and shines on this CD with lots of local contributors
Incredible! May 4, 2010
Gina A. Loveaguilar (OMAHA, NE, US)
I am brand new to jazz, although I am 50 years old. Even though I don't fully appreciate this music,(jazz), yet, I absolutely loved this CD. Allen Touissant is making a believer out of me, fast. Although I love all the tracks, I especially love "Dear Old Southland". I played it for my piano teacher, and my best friend. My best friend wasn't moved. (She's 39 year's old, and has listened to pop music all her life). But, my 28 year old piano teacher, who loves a variety of music, loved it. My 29 year old son said that "Dear Old Southland" sounded like the soundtrack to "Rodger Rabbit". I can't attest to this, although I saw the movie too.
Anyway, I play the whole CD often, and I am enjoying it for myself very much.
Brilliance at every turn February 16, 2010
Susan Meehan (Washington, DC USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Someday, the world spins and something brilliant gets tossed at your feet. You reach to pick it up, sensing that something extraordinary is about to happen. Possibly the greatest CD ever put together was my reward for some unremembered good deed. Am I exaggerating when I say this is the best CD that has ever blessed my ears? Not hardly ,as the folk might say. Toussaint must truly have had a vision from Heaven when he started on this CD. Perhaps his soul was filled with the most perfect gumbo, perhaps a New Orleans Indian feather had ticked his spirit, or perhaps someone, maybe Toussaint himself, had left an offering at Marie Laveau's tomb. Whatever the cause of this perfection, we are the beneficiaries. Toussaint has given us music with the exactly right note from beginning to end.
To me, its chief joy is that it liquidates time and space. He transports you immediately back
in time to before the end of slavery and maybe as far forward as the early part of the 20th century. The listener is right there in the heart of New Orleans and is hearing the music of that time and place as freshly as if it had been played for the very first time not more than five minutes ago. It has no sense of dusted-off museum piece, nor is it sweetened up, dumbed down, or fiddled with to make it pretty. Sorrow and pain are in every note, as well they should be, mixed along with pure bliss, It is not second-hand irony that we listen to, Toussaint has made listening a total submersion in the real thing. It is all of one piece of cloth, a masterwork in which every song makes its own contribution . When you hear this CD, you will be submerged in Toussaint's own joy, struggle and resolution. He brings us a might way, a mighty way. Toussaint, you have given listeners a rare privilege, to be somewhere else at another time and to see and hear life with the eyes, ears and heart of New Orleans,in all its bitter beauty. Thank you for giving us that privilege.
The Bright Mississippi February 11, 2010
Karen A. Nichols (Wy)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
Arrived very quickly. I gave it to my son for his birthday...he loved. The CD is in great condition.
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