Can someone identify this, from some New Orleans piano music?

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I have heard a piece of new orleans piano music but I lost track and I do not know the name of it. All I know is that it was played on Piano and I believe the artist who played it was either Dr. John (Malcom Rebennack), or some piano player from New Orleans. I tried to represent it as best I can, using a guitar and used a sound recorder application on an android mobile device. I hope it is clear and recognizable enough for maybe somebody to tell me the piece's name, and who was known to play it.


and in case link does not work, I try to include mp3 audio file.
Nope. Not seem to be in the directory.
Not showing up through "Attach Files" button although I see it in "Downloads" folder. Excuse me.
I hope the mp3 link will work.
 
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I thought this was it:

I found the name. YouTube search partially focused on Dr. John, and a discussion & demonstration video called "The Piano Styles of Dr. John - Two Video Set - by Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack". The name of the song is called "I Love That". Less than two minute length, starts at 1:07 on the timeline.

I do not believe I found that specific piece anywhere else (on YouTube).

But that is very likely WRONG. So I still do not really know the name of the piece. Likely Mac was just giving a comment about something else under discussion before the particular clip of the video section was placed; so "I love that" is irrelevant to what he played in that specified video section.

 
The tune is vaguely familiar, and more so the more I listen to your good playing, but I cannot place it, either. Listened to all my Dr. John CDs, and not quite his style, I thought, too. Though he could have played it well, surely. Sounds more like something out of some old folk tune, Mexican or Hispanic, maybe?
 
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I have heard a piece of new orleans piano music but I lost track and I do not know the name of it. All I know is that it was played on Piano and I believe the artist who played it was either Dr. John (Malcom Rebennack), or some piano player from New Orleans. I tried to represent it as best I can, using a guitar and used a sound recorder application on an android mobile device. I hope it is clear and recognizable enough for maybe somebody to tell me the piece's name, and who was known to play it.


and in case link does not work, I try to include mp3 audio file.
Nope. Not seem to be in the directory.
Not showing up through "Attach Files" button although I see it in "Downloads" folder. Excuse me.
I hope the mp3 link will work.

Try Shazam.com. https://www.shazam.com/ It may be able to identify it.
 
@difalcojr,
I did find Dr. John's representation as I said in post #2, so readers, better to refer to that instead of my somewhat poor playing of it given in post #1. Not sure yet if "shazam" will work or how it works.

Possibly this forum is not well suited for my question. I took a chance.
 
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I believe I found the identity!

Title may be Buddy Bolden's Blues, and I found by just chance finding a video of another pianist playing this.
 
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I believe I found the identity!

Title may be Buddy Bolden's Blues, and I found by just chance finding a video of another pianist playing this.


Wikipedia said:
One of the best known Bolden numbers is "Funky Butt" (later entitled "Buddy Bolden's Blues" by Jellyroll Morton), which represents one of the earliest references to the concept of funk in popular music. Bolden's "Funky Butt" was, as Danny Barker once put it, a reference to the olfactory effect of an auditorium packed full of sweaty people "dancing close together and belly rubbing."[11] This tune was incendiary in New Orleans at the time: clarinettist Sidney Bechet recalled that 'the police put you in jail if they heard you singing that song.'[12]

Mr. Bolden was known for playing the trumpet extremely loudly, an advantage in the days before electronic amplification but at sacrifice of musical tone. Playing in the fairgrounds he could be heard miles away in New Orleans. He was possibly the first jazz artist. He developed schizophrenia and was institutionalized for the remainder of his life.
 
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A likely alternative title of the piece of music seems to be "I though I heard Buddy Bolden say..."
A wikipedia search and a following YouTube search leads to this.