George Lewis - Endless the Trek, Endless the Search (CD)

All Music Guide

What you have here is a critically acclaimed George Lewis album, considered by some to contain the best music he had put onto record since the exciting Filiberto's Music Store "Jam Session" of 1950. This intriguingly titled album was recorded by one Ken Mills on August 28 and September 1 1962 at the Jeunes Amis Hall on North Robertson Street in New Orleans. The band, billed as Creole George Guesnon's New Orleans Stompers, had trumpeter Kid Thomas Valentine and trombonist Jim Robinson in the front line with Lewis, backed by banjoist Guesnon, bassist Papa John Joseph and drummer Josiah Frazier. Considering how much posthumous flack George Lewis has taken from perhaps overinformed commentators, for this album to attract praise it must be (and really is) really solid and well worth having in the home. Note that "Kid Thomas' Boogie Woogie" is also known as "Kid Thomas' Double Woogie".

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