Classified (James Booker album)

Classified is a studio album by the New Orleans pianist James Booker, released in 1982.

[10] Classified captures both solo and quartet recordings; Booker's Maple Leaf Bar band included bassist James Singleton, saxophonist Alvin Tyler, and drummer Johnny Vidacovich.

[9][11][12] The Professor Longhair medley came to an abrupt end when Booker left mid-song in order to cash a check.

[6] Robert Christgau wrote that "in general there's too much reliance on the left hand, with the consequent loss of dynamic subtlety compounded by a klutzy drum mix.

"[1] The Philadelphia Daily News praised Booker's "great stomping piano, [which is] not quite as fervent as Fats Domino or as idiosyncratic as Professor Longhair, but mightily infectious all the same.