Tiana's Bayou Adventure Full Soundtrack Now Streaming on All Platforms

Jun 28, 2024 in "Tiana's Bayou Adventure"

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PJ Morton, Terence Blanchard and Anika Noni Rose at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Posted: Friday June 28, 2024 10:09am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

To celebrate the opening day of Tiana's Bayou Adventure at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney Records has released the attraction's full soundtrack across all streaming platforms, including Apple Music and Spotify.

Among the standout tracks is the all-new, original song "Special Spice," written, produced, and performed by Grammy-Award winner PJ Morton, with vocals by Anika Noni Rose, the original voice of Princess Tiana and a Disney Legend.

PJ Morton, Terence Blanchard and Anika Noni Rose at Tiana's Bayou Adventure

Fans of "The Princess and the Frog" will hear new renditions of beloved songs from the film, including "Gonna Take You There" and "Down in New Orleans." These tracks have been revitalized for the attraction and the queue area by renowned musician Terence Blanchard, alongside PJ Morton.

Recorded in New Orleans, the soundtrack features an array of artists who have contributed their talents to the ride experience. Notable performers include:

Anika Noni Rose – The beloved voice of Princess Tiana returns, singing vocals on "Special Spice."
Jon Batiste, Jon Cleary, and Trombone Shorty – Grammy-award winning musicians who bring their unique flair to various songs throughout the attraction.
Tarriona "Tank" Ball – A New Orleans native who performs a new rendition of "Dig A Little Deeper."
Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Playing and singing "They All Asked for You," a song well-known in New Orleans.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Contributing to tracks like "Louisiana Fairytale," "Tailgate Ramble," and "Bourbon Street Parade."
Leah Chase Kamata – Singing "Do you Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" in the queue area.
Charlie Gabriel – The 91-year-old icon provides lead vocals and clarinet on "Tailgate Ramble."
Terrance Simien – The two-time Grammy winner performs the queue version of "Gonna Take You There."

The creation of this soundtrack involved hundreds of artists and music professionals. Here is the full list of performers and contributors:

Music Production Team – Attraction

• Brandon Caddell – Arranger, Music Supervisor
• PJ Morton – Composer, Arranger
• Haim Mazar – Arranger
• Richard Morse – Arranger (Scene 6 Rara)
• Reggie Nicholas, Jr. – Recording Engineer, Mixer
• Greg Morgan – Recording Engineer, Mixer
• John Michael Rouchell – Music Production Supervisor
• Susan Ham – Music Editor
• Booker White – Copyist

Performers

• Anika Noni Rose
• Michael-Leon Wooley
• Dr. John
• Jim Cummings
• Tarriona "Tank" Ball
• Jarell Michael Bankston
• Ashtin Fortner
• Armando Leduc
• Tiondria Norris
• Ashley Pierre Williams
• PJ Morton
• Jon Batiste
• Jon Cleary
• Trombone Shorty
• Kyle Anderson
• Sean Ardoin
• Weedie Braimah
• Max Bronstein
• Leon Brown
• Hunter Burgamy
• Robin Clabby
• Edward Clark
• Brian Cockerham
• Mike Esneault
• Alvin Ford
• Jonathan Frishberg
• Victor Goines
• Julian Gosin
• Benjamin Hart
• Trevarri Huff-Boone
• Jason Jurzak
• Blair Taylor Lavigne
• Christos Melios
• Ashlin Parker
• Manuel Perkins
• David Pulphus
• Marcella Ratcliff
• Jason Ricci
• Paul Robertson
• Kyle Roussel
• Benjamin Thacher
• Erion Williams
• Hannah Yim
• Richard Morse
• Pierre Daniel Jules
• Darianna Videaux Capitel
• Emmanuel Jules
• Joseph D. Cabral
• Max Blanc
• Peter Barr
• Walter F. Harris Jr.
• Dezor Willy
• Craig Adams
• Veronica Downs-Dorsey
• Tiffany French
• Shantell Hall
• Sean Johnson
• Toryan Johnson
• Latashah Long
• Harrison Nedd III
• Keenan Rogers
• Milezone Williams

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra

• Miles Berry
• John Michael Bradford
• Bryce Eastwood
• Ricio Fruge
• Maxwell Paulus
• Shea Pierre
• TJ Norris
• Adonis Rose
• Adrian Ross
• Amina Scott
• Terrance Taplin
• Don Vappie
• Gerald Watkins Jr.
• Lex Warshawski

Music Production Team – Queue

• Terence Blanchard – Arranger, Music Producer
• Terrance Simien – Arranger ("Gonna Take You There")
• Herlin Riley – Lyricist
• Greg Hayes – Recording Engineer, Mixer
• Harry Risoleo – Recording Engineer, Music Editor
• John Michael Rouchell – Music Production Supervisor
• Joshua Johnson – Music Coordinator
• Katie Taber – Music Coordinator
• Booker White – Copyist

Queue Performers

• Terence Blanchard
• Herlin Riley
• Kyle Roussel
• David Pulphus
• Ivan Neville
• Victor Goines
• Don Vappie
• Alvin Ford
• Hannah Yim
• Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes
• Terrance Simien
• Danny Williams
• Ian Molinaro-Thompson
• Marcella Simien
• Michael Christie
• Revon Andrews
• Stan Chambers
• John Michael Rouchell
• Leah Chase-Kamata

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

• Charles Gabriel
• Clinton Maedgen
• Mark Braud
• Benjamin Jaffe
• Ronell Johnson
• Derrick Moss
• Lumar Leblanc
• Julian Gosin
• Corey Peyton
• Erion Williams
• Paul Robertson
• Manuel Perkins
• Marcus Hubbard

The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

• Roger Lewis
• Gregory Davis
• Kirk Joseph
• Trevarri Huff-Boone
• Stephen Walker
• Julian Addison

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The MomJul 21, 2025

This thread will serve to update on construction progress, new storyline details, and other details specific to Tiana's Bayou Adventure. It is not to discuss the merits of the retheme of Splash Mountain, please continue to use the original thread at https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...s-and-the-frog-tianas-bayou-adventure.965899/

osianJul 20, 2025

Test Track 3.0 in the forest drive section!

WorldExplorerJul 20, 2025

"Old Epcot and Tokyo did/do it" is exactly the response I expected.

MerlinTheGoatJul 20, 2025

There are some other Disney attractions in the world that have somewhat brightly lit environments in that same vein. And there used to be a larger amount at WDW years back. Several of the old EPCOT Future World classics did, and Great Movie Ride with some scenes. One attraction that has some very similar looking sunny scenery to Splash that still exists today (and isn't Splash) is Pooh's Hunny Hunt from Tokyo.

JayspencyJul 20, 2025

I think living with the land did this as well for the farm scene. Though it’s much darker in there compared to splash.

MerlinTheGoatJul 20, 2025

How did you get any of this out of that post? They said the exact opposite. The only real similarity with the previous ride is that they reused the same building and track layout. The reason why that's an issue is because TBA does not work with this layout. A more talented team probably could have come up with a better fit. But as it stands, almost none of the scenes feel like much thought was put into them. The concerns Tony Baxter noted in a podcast about how you need a tense and scary story to justify the lifts and drops also ended up being accurate. Secondly, the scenery is very off in a number of ways. I've mentioned this myself. The previous ride's environments were all thoroughly stylized to appear like a cartoon come to life. Most of the set design was custom, sculpted and painted in an exaggerated and non-realistic art style. One of the best comparison examples are the grassy surfaces in those shots above. In the previous ride, the grass was a sculpted element, it was a largely smooth minimally textured surface. Only the edges had a bit of physical texture to simulate thick cartoonish blades of grass draping over the sides of the riverbank. The paint and brush strokes did the work for all of the finer detail and texture. And they used very bright colors that popped even in a bright "sunny" looking environment. TBA is also based on an animated film, and it has figures that are somewhat similarly cartoony and stylized to that of the predecessor. Some of the walls are also hand painted (with animated projections) in this style. Those elements look somewhat appropriate to the cartoon stylization at least. However, no such consideration was given to the physical set design at all, resulting in different art styles clashing together. They filled in the mostly gutted sets with generic realistic fake grass bought from a store. They attempted to simulate a colorful painted style with lighting, but it doesn't work well because the shapes and textures that fill out the setpieces still have that generic realistic appearance. Lights also can't control fine details like paint and brush strokes can. In a ride that was going for a more realistic setting such as Pirates or Living with the Land, this realistic foliage would work well (provided everything else matched). But not for a ride based off an animated film with cartoony characters and backgrounds.

IncomudroJul 19, 2025

The current crop of Imaginears - or at least the crew assigned to this project - truly don't know what they are doing. I've said it before, I'll say it again: With Splash, each scene was a storyboard. The scenes worked even when static. There was a sense of implied movement, and every scene worked even by itself. Narration wasn't even needed. With Tiana, it's all gesturing and dialog.

Jedi14Jul 19, 2025

From what they had said about the show, it was to be set after TBA and partially about Tiana’s new role as a community leader and future queen.

LindseyDisneyJul 19, 2025

I posted this on reddit and I thought I would share my thoughts on here. I'm curious what everyone thinks? This is just my own wild theory, but I’ve always thought the characters we’re seeing in Tiana's Bayou Adventure were originally meant to be introduced in the canceled Tiana series. Since that show was scrapped, I can’t help but wonder what the future holds for Tiana's Bayou Adventure. My guess is that in the next 10 to 15 years, Disney might end up tweaking the ride's storyline. While they’ll definitely keep the Princess and the Frog IP, I could see them changing the narrative. Or potential inclusion of Dr. Facilier. With the upcoming Villains Land in the parks, how can they not include him? I’m almost imagining a scenario like Journey into Imagination. where we end up with two different Princess and the Frog storylines / rides in the parks.

EagleScout610Jul 19, 2025

Even as someone with a Splash poster 10 feet from my desk, and Br'er Bear and Rabbit funkos among the many on my desk, I get the annoyance, but it's pointless to rehash the Splash argument again. Splash is gone, and now we can just make fun of how bad Bayou is

HMFJul 19, 2025

For my own sanity I mostly avoided the Splash threads from 2020 until it opened and then rendered my opinion.

HMFJul 18, 2025

I remember thinking in the early 2010s Things at WDW probably could not get any worse, I was wrong about that.

WorldExplorerJul 18, 2025

And now we're supposed to do all of this all over again. I don't normally quote myself, but I feel like I really got the Piston Peak situation down pat a year ago;

Splash4evaJul 18, 2025

Exactly. We saw the same playbook with GMR. Sadly no matter what shape Splash was in and towards the end and even other times its was rough with many things not working but end of day the ride was still the best and a classic. One where you can sing from start to finish and have an absolute joyous time on.