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Ghost Canyon

Title - Alright!
Artist - Roger Lewis

For those of you not in the know, Alright! is Roger Lewis’ first album after more than 60 years of illustrious play as a saxophonist in New Orleans and round the world.

Roger Lewis is co-founder of the 45-years-and-going-strong Dirty Dozen Brass Band and as such he is a part of more then a dozen treasured albums since the early 1980s.

A quarter-century earlier, Roger Lewis as a teenager accompanied some of the Rhythm & Blues key creators and the Cosimo Matassa studio and Dew Drop Inn and Pimlico Club of New Orleans.

Now 80, he has pursued throughout his career - studying and shedding with Frederic Kemp, William Metcalf, Kidd Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, et al - tones and expressions unique to his decades of upbringing and his own voice.

Alright! beings Roger Lewis into company with world-renowned players who know his music intimately. Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph, each a bandleader himself, grew up a generation later in New Orleans traditions.

They know Roger like family. Don Paul heard the stories behind Roger’s tunes with the sympathetic understanding Roger evokes - Bobee, Carrying The Saxophones, Little Things all were vivid through Roger.

1. Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way) (Instrumental) (5:05)
2. Carrying The Saxophones (Instrumental) (7:01)
3. Little Things (Instrumental) (3:26)
4. Little Things (with verse) (3:26)
5. Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All (Instrumental) (4:41)
6. Maybe You See Horses (Instrumental) (9:46)
7. Maybe You See Horses (with verse) (9:44)
8. Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All (with verse) (4:41)
9. Carrying The Saxophones (with verse) (7:01)

Opening on the upliftingly funky tones of the instrumental Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way) and the ferociously powerful sax work that adorns the instrumental Carrying The Saxophones, the dulcet piano-led work of Little Things (Instrumental) and then with a spoken word verse added, before we are given the melodically rhythmic Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All (Instrumental).

Up next is one of my own personal favorites, the almost crystalline, skillfully crafted improvised tribute to Kidd Jordan Maybe You See Horses (Instrumental) and then another version with an additional spoken word verse, the album rounding out on the pure gospel flow of Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All (with additional verse), closing on a cut from Don Paul’s new album (Love Over War), the righteously funky and groove-laden Get Your JAM On!

Personnel:
ROGER LEWIS / saxophones
HERLIN RILEY / drums-set
KIRK JOSEPH / sousaphone
MICHAEL TORREGANO JR. / piano and B3 and electronic keyboards
MARIO ABNEY / trumpet
(All five above are in the RIVERS ANSWER MOONS band)
ERICA FALLS / singer
DON PAUL / vocalist

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