Emerson, NJ. (Top40 Charts/ DigitalSoundboard) - DigitalSoundboard.net, a leading online music download store offering live performance recordings via downloads and mail order, today announced that the company has released recordings from select late night sessions during Jazzfest 2007. The new releases feature the following Artists; Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk, New Orleans Funkmasters, The New Orleans Allstars, Papa Grows Funk,
George Porter's Runnin' Pardners and Porter-Batiste-Stoltz, Rebirth Brass Band, a number of Trio sessions, Big Sam's Funky Nation, The Stanton Moore Trio, Joe Krown Organ Combo and more.
This collection of recordings features a who's who of local New Orleans musical talent including: George Porter Jr. of The Meters and Funky Meters, Russell Batiste and Brian Stoltz of The Funky Meters, Ian and Ivan Neville, Stanton Moore of Galactic, Robert Walter and Karl Denson of the Greyboy Allstars, Theresa Andersson, drummer Johnny Vidacovich, guitar impresario June Yamagishi, Henry Butler, singer Leslie Smith and many more.
Each year for the past 38 years New Orleans has been host to the Jazz & Heritage Festival in late April - early May, and 2007 marks the second year DigitalSoundboard.net has engaged in late night recording of performances that happen outside of the Fair Grounds Race Track and in the clubs of New Orleans during Jazzfest 2007. Once the gates close at the Fair Grounds each evening, the New Orleans night heats up with artists performing at various hot spots around town. The recording teams from DigitalSoundboard were there to capture select sets being performed each night during Jazzfest week.
Dave Morrison, co-founder of DigitalSoundboard.net and producer of the NOLA Late Nite series, said, "For 2007 DigitalSoundboard.net was able to nearly triple the number of recordings over our 2006 effort of recording performances around New Orleans during Jazzfest. DigitalSoundboard is proud to do our part in a post-Katrina world for the New Orleans musicians and provide them a platform where the recordings of their live performances can be heard by a global audience. This year's project brought us back to such notable New Orleans hotspots as The Howlin Wolf, The House of Blues, Southport Hall, The Maple Leaf, D.B.A, Le Bon Temps Roule, Carrollton Station, Chickie Wah Wah and Tipitina's." Morrison adds, "While progress has been made over the past year in cleaning up the mess left behind by the effects of Katrina, not all of the musicians we work with have made it back home. More work needs to be done to get everyone home and the proceeds from these recordings will help make that happen."
New Orleans music fans can visit DigitalSoundboard.net to hear samples of the recordings and download or mail order the recordings. Free tracks are available for download at DigitalSoundboard's MySpace site - https://www.myspace.com/digitalsoundboard
