DESCRIPTION:
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE IN A SPONTANEOUS LIVE CONCERT THERE IS A PERFECT MOMENT AND THIS IS ONE. FROM RYAN'S BEAUTIFUL LOW TONES TO HIS SOARING HIGH REGISTER HE NAILS THIS CUT. LONG A STUDENT AND PROTEGE OF JACQUES GAUTHE( A PROTEGE OF SIDNEY BECHET) RYAN HAS ABSORBED THE PATHOS AND SOUL OF THIS LEGENDARY TUNE.

FOR SIX YEARS RYAN LED THE RHYTHM MAKERS AT FRITZEL'S ON BOURBON STREET. FROM 2002-2007 JACQUES WAS A PART OF THE BAND. WHEN JACQUES PASSED IN 2007 THERE WAS A PROFOUND SINCE OF LOSS IN NEW ORLEANS ESPECIALLY ON BOURBON STREET. RYAN CONTINUED TO RUN THE MUSIC UNTIL LATE 2008 WHEN NEW OWNERS BOUGHT THE CLUB.

THIS CUT WAS FILMED ON SEPT. 12,2009 AT THE PENTASTIC JAZZ FESTIVAL.
JIM HESSION-PIANO
CORI WALTERS-DRUMS