The two CD set features New Orleans music recorded in the fifties in New Orleans and San Francisco.The musicians are all famous New Orleans musicians and most of them are born in New Orleans. There are eight different bands. You will hear George Lewis His New Orleans Jazzband, George Girard His new Orleans Five, Alvin Alcorns Jam Session, Johnny Wiggs New Orleans Jazz Club Group, Kid Ory His Creole Jazzband, Percy Humphreys Jam Session, Sharkey Bonano At Lenfants Lounge and Lee Collins At Joe Mare's Place. George Lewis and Kid Ory played many times at the Hangover Club in San Francisco where their sessions are recorded. All the other bands are recorded in New Orleans. CD1: Basin Street Blues Climax Rag Mama Dont Allow Bugle Call Rag Bill Bailey Muskrat Ramble Basin Street Blues Dippermouth Blues Limehouse Blues Sweethearts On Parade Chinatown, My Chinatown Riverboat Shuffle Doctor Jazz Original Dixieland OneStep Hindustan At The Jazz Band Ball Down By The Old Mill Stream Royal Garden Blues King Zulu Parade March Congo Square Sensation Mississippi Mud. CD 2: Eh, La Bas My Buckets Got A Hole In It Savoy Blues 12th Street Rag Muskrat Ramble Maryland, My Maryland Bill Bailey Them There Eyes See See Rider Everybody Loves My Baby Bye And Bye Rip Em Up, Joe Little Blues For Fun Shes Crying For Me Tin Roof Blues St. Louis Blues High Society Goin Home When The Saints Royal Garden Blues.