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Pure Dixieland
Studio album by Harry Connick Jr.
Released	1979
Recorded	New Orleans: November 4, 11, 1978
Genre	Piano, Dixieland
Length	28:41
Label	Sony/Columbia
Producer	James Duggan
Harry Connick Jr. chronology
Dixieland Plus (1977) Pure Dixieland (1979) Harry Connick Jr. (1987)
Eleven
Cover for the 1992 re-issue, Eleven

Pure Dixieland is a mostly instrumental album of traditional New Orleans classics, from an ensemble of New Orleans jazz masters, including a young Harry Connick Jr. at the age of eleven.

The album was originally released in 1979, titled Pure Dixieland. It was re-released in November 1992 as Eleven.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Q	(3/93, p.85)

Track listing

1. "Sweet Georgia Brown" (Maceo Pinkard, Kenneth Casey, Ben Bernie) – 4:39
2. "Tin Roof Blues" (Walter Melrose, Leon Rappolo, Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, George Brunies, Mel Stitzel) – 2:55
3. "Wolverine Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton, Benjamin Spikes, John Spikes) – 3:06
4. "Jazz Me Blues" (Tom Delaney) – 3:04
5. "Doctor Jazz" (Joe "King" Oliver, Melrose) – 3:27
6. "Muskrat Ramble" (Ray Gilbert, Kid Ory) – 2:39
7. "Lazy River" (Hoagy Carmichael, Sidney Arodin) – 2:48
8. "Joe Avery's Piece" (Traditional) – 3:11
9. "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" (Joe Turner Layton, Henry Creamer) – 2:46

Musicians

• Harry Connick Jr. – piano, vocals on "Doctor Jazz"
• Jim Duggan – trombone
• Liston Johnson – clarinet
• Freddie Kohlman – drums
• Walter Payton – bass
• Tedd Riley – trumpet

References

1. 25 (1992) Harry Connick Jr., Entertainment Weekly

External links

• Eleven, at harryconnickjr.com

• 1979 albums
• 1992 albums
• Harry Connick Jr. albums