The first two selections on the album are played by the Wynton Marsalis Sextet, and the remaining three tracks (side B on the original LP release), a set entitled "New Orleans Function", features the sextet along with additional New Orleans musicians in a style strongly influenced by the traditional New Orleans brass band.

This section mirrors a traditional jazz funeral, with a dirge-like first selection ("The Death of Jazz"), then a spoken word section ("Premature Autopsies", an essay by Stanley Crouch performed by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr.), preached like a minister saying the final words at the graveyard, and finally a second line number ("Oh, But on the Third Day – Happy Feet Blues").

All songs written by Wynton Marsalis, except for the sermon, written by Stanley Crouch.

Composed of the Wynton Marsalis Sextet and the following:

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