(New Orleans Blues, New Orleans R&B, Piano Blues, Rhumba etc) Professor Longhair - 9 альбомов (записи 1949-1980), MP3 (tracks), 192-320 kbps

#777Записи 1949-1953 годов.
1. In The Night (2:33)
2. Tipitina (2:25)
3. Tipitina (2:39)
4. Ball The Wall (3:20)
5. Who's Been Fooling You (2:12)
6. Hey Now Baby (2:57)
7. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2:55)
8. She Walks Right In (3:09)
9. Hey Little Girl (3:03)
10. Willie Mae (2:49)
11. Walk Your Blues Away (2:57)
12. Professor Longhair Blues (2:29)
13. Boogie Woogie (2:41)
14. Longhair's Blues - Rhumba (3:14)
15. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2:53)
16. She Walks Right In (2:48)
Представлены все 16 записей Профессора на лейбле Atlantic.

#777Записано в 1974 году.
1. Hey Now Baby (3:38)
2. Junco Partner (3:29)
3. Meet Me Tomorrow Night (3:17)
4. Doin' It (4:05)
5. How long Has That Train Been Gone (3:30)
6. Mean Ol' World (3:35)
7. Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (2:43)
8. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2:56)
9. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) (3:11)
10. Tipitina (3:37)
11. Mess Around (2:38)
12. Stag-O-Lee (2:57)
13. Rum And Coke (3:12)
14. (They Call Me) Dr. Professor Longhair (4:17)
Просто великолепный альбом, плюс Клэренс "Gatemouth" Браун на гитаре и скрипке.

#777Записано в 24 марта 1975 года.
1. Tell Me Pretty Baby (4:01)
2. Mess Around (3:59)
3. Everyday I Have The Blues (5:45)
4. Tipitina (3:40)
5. I'm Movin' On (3:49)
6. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2:56)
7. Cry To Me (2:38)
8. Gone So Long (4:26)
9. Stagger Lee (2:57)
Первая "живая" запись "Фесса", на вечеринке, устроенной Полом и Линдой Маккартни на борту судна "Queen Mary".

#7771. Big Chief (3:16)
2. Her Mind Is Gone (4:25)
3. Something On Your Mind (4:13)
4. You're Driving Me Crazy (2:37)
5. Red Beans (4:12)
6. Willie Fugal's Blues (2:07)
7. It's My Fault, Darling (4:55)
8. In the Wee Wee Hours (aka In The Night) (3:24)
9. Cry To Me (3:38)
10. Bald Head (3:01)
11. Whole Lotta Loving (3:48)
12. Crawfish Fiesta (3:14)
Проследняя сессия Профессора, и, возможно, самая лучшая - он сам, по крайней мере, считал именно так. Рой Бёрд скончался за день до намеченной даты выпуска альбома...

#777Записано в 1971-1972 годах.
1. No Buts, No Maybes (2:13)
2. Gone So Long (4:40)
3. She Walks Right In (2:56)
4. Thank You Pretty Baby (3:34)
5. 501 Boogie (2:16)
6. Tipitina (4:24)
7. Gonna Leave This Town (2:44)
8. Cabbage Head (3:52)
9. Hey Little Girl (3:54)
10. Big Chief (3:18)
11. Cherry Pie (4:25)
12. Junco Partner (3:04)
13. Every Day I Have the Blues (4:23)
14. "G" Jam (2:18)
15. (They Call Me) Dr. Professor Longhair (4:27)
Сделанные в Бэтон-Рудже и Мемфисе записи, как это иногда бывает, потерялись и были изданы лишь после смерти Фесса.

#777Записано в 1971-1972 годах
1. Mardi Gras In New Orleans (2:57)
2. Jambalaya (2:11)
3. Since I Met You Baby (5:11)
4. Her Mind Is Gone (4:27)
5. Cry To Me (3:55)
6. Meet Me Tomorrow Night (2:57)
7. She Ain't Got No Hair (3:11)
8. Tipitina (3:22)
9. Fats Domino Medley: Goin' Home/You Know I Miss You/Rockin' Chair/Goin' To The River (4:02)
10. Mean Old World (2:40)
11. Sick And Tired (3:15)
12. Hey Now Baby (5:00)
13. There Is Something On Your Min (2:50)
14. Doin' It (3:55)
15. Rum And Coca-Cola (3:03)
16. Whole Lotta Loving (2:47)
17. Gone So Long (5:13)
18. How Long Has That Train Been Gone (3:42)
Материал с тех же сессий, что и предыдущий диск.

#777Записано в 1978 году.
1. Big Chief (3:53)
2. Hey Little Girl (3:09)
3. How Long Has That Train Been Gone (3:49)
4. I'm Movin' On (4:09)
5. Mess Around (3:32)
6. Medley: She Walks Right in/Shake, Rattle & Roll/Sick and Tired (6:45)
7. Tipitina (3:58)
8. Little Blues (1:39)
9. Her Mind Is Gone (4:34)
10. Stagger Lee (5:04)
11. I Got My Mojo Working (4:41)
12. Rum and Coca-Cola (2:03)
13. Mardi Gras in New Orleans (2:53)
14. Doin' It (6:01)
Ещё один посмертный релиз. Концертная запись с духовой секцией.

#777Записано в 1978 году.
1. Mess Around (4:24)
2. Hey Now Baby (4:05)
3. Whole Lot Of Loving (2:46)
4. Go To The Mardi Gras (2:50)
5. Bald Head (3:09)
6. Tipitina (3:54)
7. Big Chief (3:26)
8. Everyday I Have The Blues (3:58)
9. Hey Little Girl (3:20)
10. Lovely Lady (2:51)
11. Medley: She Walked Right In / Shake Rattle & Roll / Sick & Tired (3:24)
12. Rockin Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu (1:15)
13. Rockin' With Fess (2:43)
14. P.I. Boogie (2:51)
Профессор Лонгхэр выступает в Лондоне с игроком на барабанах конга Альфредом "Уганда" Робертсом. Всего лишь фортепиано и конга - а что получается!

#777Записано в 1980 году.
1. Mess Around (4:05)
2. Interview #1 (1:34)
3. Doin It (3:48)
4. Tipitina (3:32)
5. Interview #2 (1:44)
6. Got my Mojo Working (4:06)
7. Hey Now Baby (4:13)
8. Interview #3 (0:57)
9. Big Chief (3:59)
10. Whole Lotta Loving (3:06)
11. Interview #4 (3:43)
12. Her Mind Is Gone (3:37)
13. Interview #5 (4:27)
14. How Long Has That Train Been Gone (4:41)
Незадолго до своей кончины Фесс записывался для канадской радиостанции. По каким-то причинам зафиксированным на плёнке оказалось лишь фортепиано (хотя кое-где можно расслышать отзвуки духовых и вокала). Если Вы думаете, что сессия пошла насмарку, значит, Вы ни разу не слышали Профессора Лонгхэйра!
На диске также представлены отрывки из интервью Профессора.

Justly worshipped a decade and a half after his death as a founding father of New Orleans R&B, Roy "Professor Longhair" Byrd was nevertheless so down-and-out at one point in his long career that he was reduced to sweeping the floors in a record shop that once could have moved his platters by the boxful.
That Longhair made such a marvelous comeback testifies to the resiliency of this late legend, whose Latin-tinged rhumba-rocking piano style and croaking, yodeling vocals were as singular and spicy as the second-line beats that power his hometown's musical heartbeat. Longhair brought an irresistible Caribbean feel to his playing, full of rolling flourishes that every Crescent City ivories man had to learn inside out (Fats Domino, Huey Smith, and Allen Toussaint all paid homage early and often).
Longhair grew up on the streets of the Big Easy, tap dancing for tips on Bourbon Street with his running partners. Local 88s aces Sullivan Rock, Kid Stormy Weather, and Tuts Washington all left their marks on the youngster, but he brought his own conception to the stool. A natural-born card shark and gambler, Longhair began to take his playing seriously in 1948, earning a gig at the Caldonia Club. Owner Mike Tessitore bestowed Longhair with his professorial nickname (due to Byrd's shaggy coiffure).
Longhair debuted on wax in 1949, laying down four tracks (including the first version of his signature "Mardi Gras in New Orleans," complete with whistled intro) for the Dallas-based Star Talent label. His band was called the Shuffling Hungarians, for reasons lost to time! Union problems forced those sides off the market, but Longhair's next date for Mercury the same year was strictly on the up-and-up. It produced his first and only national R&B hit in 1950, the hilarious "Bald Head" (credited to Roy Byrd & His Blues Jumpers).
The pianist made great records for Atlantic in 1949, Federal in 1951, Wasco in 1952, and Atlantic again in 1953 (producing the immortal "Tipitina," a romping "In the Night," and the lyrically impenetrable boogie "Ball the Wall"). After recuperating from a minor stroke, Longhair came back on Lee Rupe's Ebb logo in 1957 with a storming "No Buts - No Maybes." He revived his "Go to the Mardi Gras" for Joe Ruffino's Ron imprint in 1959; this is the version that surfaces every year at Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
Other than the ambitiously arranged "Big Chief" in 1964 for Watch Records, the '60s held little charm for Longhair. He hit the skids, abandoning his piano playing until a booking at the fledgling 1971 Jazz & Heritage Festival put him on the comeback trail. He made a slew of albums in the last decade of his life, topped off by a terrific set for Alligator, Crawfish Fiesta.
Longhair triumphantly appeared on the PBS-TV concert series Soundstage (with Dr. John, Earl King, and the Meters), co-starred in the documentary Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together (which became a memorial tribute when Longhair died in the middle of its filming; funeral footage was included), and saw a group of his admirers buy a local watering hole in 1977 and rechristen it Tipitina's after his famous song. He played there regularly when he wasn't on the road; it remains a thriving operation.
Longhair went to bed on January 30, 1980, and never woke up. A heart attack in the night stilled one of New Orleans' seminal R&B stars, but his music is played in his hometown so often and so reverently you'd swear he was still around. Bill Dahl, Allmusic.com