Sirens wail and the shout goes out, “Who Dat Called Da Police.” The New Birth Brass Band gets the party rolling with this street favorite. The popular response, “Dem ho’s called the police!” was left out for the sake of radio airplay, but this opening tune has all the exuberance of a Sunday afternoon second line and that, most will agree, is hard to capture on recordings. The song is one of four fresh tunes on New Orleans Second Line! mixed with material from the New Birth Family and Get the Hump Out Yo Back albums.

All of the unreleased tunes except for Kool & the Gang’s hit, “Apache” come from the very prolific pen of bass drummer/leader Tanio Hingle and are already well know to brass band followers. “Show Me That Dance Called the Second Line,” which includes its signature “whooo, whooo, whooo” hook starts out straight up hot brass. Then saxophonist Frederick “Shep” Sheppard (man, do we miss him on the scene) lets loose with some outside blowin’ as the rest of the horns riff behind him. The other original is the instrumental, “Here We Go.” Running almost seven minutes, this tune is a celebration in itself. As when the New Birth rolls on “the line,” the band continually changes the intensity of its delivery. The quieter moments when somebody is digging into a solo calm a crowd before building it up again.

Though the sparse liner notes don’t even include personnel, kudos do go out for the eye-catching, illustrated cover by Mark Andersen. It would be difficult to walk by a rack and not check out this disc.