Eskew Reeder - The Magnificent Esquerita!

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE BE WELCOMED TO THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ESQUERITA!
This album represents an entry point into that world, covering an incredibly short period in the singer's 30-year-plus musical journey, sporadic - and always exciting. What a period, hunkered down in New Orleans and trying to escape from his legend as the man who taught Little Richard how to play piano and who, for a short while, was destined to become a substitute Richard, when the original abandoned rock and roll for the church. If truth be told, Eskew Reeder, aka Esquerita, was always more interesting than that - even on his earliest rock and roll sides. His look was outrageous, a gay icon who blazed a sartorial trail and a keyboard player lauded by not just Little Richard but also Allen Toussaint. Reeder cut his last disc in 1967, but remained adjacent to the music business, whilst living mainly in New York.