Palm Court All Stars

The Palm Court Jazz Cafe on Decatur Street in the French Quarter puts on an All Star show every Jazzfest. In the past, the event was sponsored by Jazzfest, but this year it was held separately (probably because Katrina forced cutbacks in the size of the festival). The performers this year were Lars Edegran on piano, Evan Christopher on clarinet, Mark Braud on trumpet, Fred Lonzo on trombone, Jim Singleton on string bass, Frank Oxley on drums, Juanita Brooks on vocal and Barbara Shorts on vocal. The show went for about three and a half hours.

They put on two great sets - in the first set the band played That's a Plenty, Bugle Boy March and The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me without a vocalist. Juanita Brooks sang Breeze (Blow My Baby Back to Me), Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans and Whenever You're Lonesome, and Barbara Shorts sang Just See If I Care, Them There Eyes and I Want to Be Somebody's Baby Doll. Together, Brooks and Shorts sang This Little Light of Mine.

In the second set the band played Honky Tonk Train and Just a Little While to Stay Here. Shorts sang Baby, Won't You Please Come Home and New Orleans Hop Scop Blues, and Brooks sang Freight Train Blues and After You've Gone. Together they sang Over in the Glory Land.





Juanita Brooks on vocal.



Barbara Shorts on vocal.