New Orleans: That's Our Home

New Orleans, and its music, has been in everyone's thoughts following the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina. This recording salutes the city and its musical heritage with a program put together over 4 nights of performance at Toronto's Montreal Bistro. John Sheridan's elegant piano stylings laid down a harmonic carpet for the burnished brilliance of Barnard's cornet - deeply etched within the "hot" traditions of New Orleans. Everything is held together by the rhythmic sparkle of Don Vickery's drums. The program contains echoes of many facets of the city's musical traditions: the marching bands, the joyful exuberance of the city's good times as well as songs reflective of the city's more somber moments.