(New Orleans Jazz, New Orleans Blues, New Orleans R&B) [CD] VA - Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans (1927-2003) (4CD) - 2004, MP3, 320 kbps

01. Galactic feat. Theryl deClouet - Welcome to New Orleans (0:15)
02. Kermit Ruffins - Drop Me Off in New Orleans (4:28)
03. Fats Domino - I'm Walkin' (2:07)
04. Dr. John - Iko Iko (4:09)
05. Louis Armstrong & His Hot Seven - Potato Head Blues (2:55)
06. Lil' Queenie & The Percolators - My Darlin' New Orleans (4:02)
07. The Iguanas - Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going) (3:17)
08. Anders Osborne & "Big Chief" Monk Boudreaux - Meet the Boyz on the Battlefront (4:37)
09. Clarence "Frogman" Henry - Ain't Got No Home (2:19)
10. Rebirth Brass Band - Feel Like Funkin' It Up (5:05)
11. BeauSoleil - Zydeco Gris-Gris (3:39)
12. Ernie K-Doe - Mother-In-Law (2:32)
13. Marcia Ball - That's Enough of That Stuff (4:30)
14. The Radiators - Confidential (4:11)
15. The Meters - Hey Pocky A-Way (4:03)
16. Jelly Roll Morton & His New Orleans Jazzmen - I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say (3:13)
17. Paul Sanchez - Foot of Canal Street (3:48)
18. Vernet Bagneris & The Cast of One Mo' Time - Down in Honky Tonk Town (3:02)
19. Huey (Piano) Smith & The Clowns - Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu (2:18)
20. Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen - More Hipper (5:29)
21. Johnny Adams - Release Me (2:52)
22. Sidney Bechet & His New Orleans Feet Warmers - Preachin' Blues (3:13)
23. Clifton Chenier - Jambalaya (3:35)

01. Leigh Harris - Dog Days (5:50)
02. Earl King - No City Like New Orleans (4:34)
03. Don Vappie & The Creole Jazz Serenaders - Salee Dames, Bon Jour (2:48)
04. Balfa Toujours - Marshall's Club (3:43)
05. Irma Thomas - You Can Have My Husband (3:14)
06. Galactic - Go Go (3:04)
07. The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars - Not Too Eggy (2:12)
08. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - St. James Infirmary (5:38)
09. Deacon John Moore - Going Back to New Orleans (2:45)
10. Buckwheat Zydeco - Hot Tamale Baby (4:08)
11. The Neville Brothers - Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy (4:26)
12. James Andrews - Poop Ain't Gotta Scuffle No More (5:38)
13. The Hawketts - Mardi Gras Mambo (2:17)
14. George Lewis' Ragtime Band - Ice Cream (5:49)
15. J. Monque'D - No Doubt About It (4:09)
16. The Dirty Dozen Brass Band with Danny Barker & Eddie Bo - Don't You Feel My Leg (4:18)
17. Boozoo Chavis - Dog Hill (2:39)
18. Zachary Richard - Au Bord de Lac Bijou (4:42)
19. Tuba Fats' Chosen Few Brass Band - Mardi Gras in New Orleans (6:13)

01. Dave Bartholomew - Shrimp and Gumbo (2:06)
02. Dr. Michael White - St. Phillip Street Breakdown (5:02)
03. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown - Going Back to Louisiana (4:41)
04. Aaron Neville - Tell It Like It Is (2:42)
05. Coolbone - The Saints (3:15)
06. Geno Delafose & French Rockin' Boogie - Canaille (3:07)
07. Al Johnson - Carnival Time (2:42)
08. Fredy Omar con Su Banda - La Negra Tomasa (5:04)
09. Shirley & Lee - Let the Good Times Roll (2:24)
10. Tom McDermott & Evan Christopher - The Broken Windmill (3:53)
11. Champion Jack Dupree - Way Down (3:49)
12. Raymond Myles - Hallelujah (3:58)
13. Smiley Lewis - I Hear You Knocking (2:45)
14. Steve Riley and The Mamou Playboys - La Creve de Faim (Starvation 2-Step) (3:07)
15. The Red Stick Ramblers - Main Street Blues (4:38)
16. Frankie Ford - Sea Cruise (2:44)
17. Henry Butler - Tee-Nah-Nah (3:50)
18. New Birth Brass Band - Smoke That Fire (3:06)
19. Beau Jocque & The Zydeco Hi-Rollers - Give Him Cornbread (4:16)
20. Chris Kenner - I Like It Like That (1:57)
21. James Booker - Classified (Version Two) (3:08)
22. Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights (3:35)

01. Professor Longhair - Tipitina (2:39)
02. The Wild Magnolias - Party (4:44)
03. Ellis Marsalis - Dr. Jazz (4:30)
04. Troy Andrews - Ooh Poo Pah Doo (3:16)
05. Sonny Landreth - South of I-10 (3:41)
06. Benny Spellman - Lipstick Traces (On a Cigarette) (2:26)
07. Charmaine Neville Band with Reggie Houston & Amasa Miller - The Right Key But the Wrong Keyhole (5:46)
08. Little Richard - Rip It Up (2:24)
09. Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band - Royal Garden Blues (3:32)
10. Anders Osborne - Stoned, Drunk & Naked (4:53)
11. Bruce Daigrepont - Laissez Faire (Let It Be) (2:28)
12. The New Orleans Jazz Vipers - Digga-Digga-Do (5:25)
13. Walter "Wolfman" Washington - Tailspin (3:03)
14. Lloyd Price - Lawdy Miss Clawdy (2:32)
15. Eddie Bo - Havin' Fun in New Orleans (5:01)
16. Tim Laughlin - King of the Mardi Gras (4:03)
17. Snooks Eaglin - Red Beans (3:54)
18. Mem Shannon & The Membership - S.U.V. (3:43)
19. The Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band - 'Tits Yeux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) (3:49)
20. Pete Fountain & His Band - Lazy River (3:40)
21. Louis Armstrong & His Dixieland Seven - Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? (2:58)

It reads splendidly on paper: Shout Factory's Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans is a traveler's guide to the legendary city's rich musical heritage. Over the course of four discs, it attempts to touch on all of the kinds of music associated with New Orleans -- everything from brass bands and piano blues to zydeco, jazz and klezmer -- and represent recordings from the '20s to the modern day. Add an 84-page book, complete with advice on where tourists should go in the Crescent City, and it seems like this is the definitive word on New Orleans. Well, not quite. While the idea of mixing eras is theoretically appealing, since it would emphasize common threads within New Orleans music, it winds up being distracting not only because of the different qualities of recordings, but because the sequencing isn't logical; instead of leading the listener through the changes, subtly instructing on the similarities between the seemingly dissimilar styles, the box seems like it's stuck on shuffle-play, whipping between songs without much rhyme or reason. And that haphazard sequencing brings another troubling flaw with the set into sharp relief: the musicians behind the recent recordings simply aren't a patch on the giants that provide New Orleans music with its heart, soul, blood and bone. Those musicians are here, no doubt -- Louis Armstrong, Fats Domino, Dave Bartholomew, Allen Toussaint, the Meters, Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis, the Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Huey "Piano" Smith -- are all here, but when they're combined with solid but undistinguished modern artists, the results are less than definitive. It's pleasant, and representative of what you'd hear on a trip to New Orleans, and the book is highly instructive, but as a pure, enjoyable listening experience, Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens pales next to previous New Orleans sets.