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Benoit LeBlanc: Mô kouzin mô kouzinn

by Don Ball
November 18, 2025

If you were ever curious as to what pre-jazz music might have sounded like in the Louisiana area, then Benoît LeBlanc's Mô kouzin mô kouzinn is the album for you. LeBlanc presents 27 Creole songs that in many ways form the basis for the emergence of jazz in New Orleans in the late 19th century, songs that enslaved Creole people might have played at New Orleans' Congo Square in the 19th century, one of the few places in the country ...