Ronnie Magri, bandleader and drummer, offers up a thoroughly entertaining CD titled Ronnie Magri & his New Orleans Jazz Band "Shim Sham Revue" that brings to life the music that once filled the nightclubs of Bourbon Street, and seeped into the cobblestones of every hot and humid alley, passageway, and courtyard of the Vieux Carre. Included in the CD are beautiful renditions of such classic stripper numbers as "Black & Tan Fantasy", "Stormy Weather" and "Mood Indigo," and also a newly-discovered original composition from 1956 for headliner "Evangeline the Oyster Girl." This nicely-packaged CD includes sexy, exotic dancer photos of yesteryear - Blaze Starr, Evangeline the Oyster Girl, Kalantan, and Linda Brigette among others...CLICK HERE TO ORDER!
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Download Album (MP3) - $9.99
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2002 Offbeat Magazine "Best of the Beat" Award nominee for "Best Album by a Louisiana Artist" and "Best Emerging Band."
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2002 Big Easy Award nominee for "Best Traditional Jazz Band".
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"The music on the CD is uniformly excellent... Magri and associates swing and they have fun doing it. You may have heard 'Moonglow' or 'Stormy Weather' or 'Mood Indigo' before, but never with such a sweltering, scintillating sense of satiny sleaze."
Offbeat Magazine, New Orleans
