Mitch Woods - A Tip Of The Hat To Fats, Live From The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2018 (2019)

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Jumpin' the boogie !

Things are not always what they seem to be : on the seventeen tracks of this live homage to Fats Domino, only nine are music, the other eight are usual live patter and banter. But the real surprise is elsewhere : this tribute doesn't feature any song written by Domino ! Not a single one !

The album includes only titles “covered” by Domino, some previously sung by Wynonie Harris or Jackie Brenston, as well as two Woods originals with a Domino mood (though one is rather an adaptation). In fact more than a tribute to Fats, it's a tribute to Nawlins piano and pianists by a pianist who's not from the Crescent City. But of course this tribute couldn't take place anywhere else but in New Orleans, Domino's home town, at the prestigious Jazz & Heritage Festival 2018 which took place only five months after Domino's passing.