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Article: Album Review

The Happy Pals: New Orleans Party Orchestra

Read "New Orleans Party Orchestra" reviewed by Edward Blanco


The city of New Orleans may never be the same after Hurricane Katrina, but the monster storm will not dampen the spirit of the jazz music for which it is known. New Orleans jazz is alive and well and has taken root in, of all places, Toronto, Canada. The Toronto-based Happy Pals septet, which has been ...

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Article: Book Review

Why New Orleans Matters

Read "Why New Orleans Matters" reviewed by Sandy Ingham


Why New Orleans Matters Tom Piazza Regan Books/HarperCollins Hardcover; 192 pages ISBN: 0061124834 2005 It's not strictly about jazz. It's all about the city that gave birth to the music. And just as happens in that magical, mysterious place, Tom Piazza's lyrical love song to, and ...

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Article: Album Review

New Orleans: New Orleans Mardi Gras

Read "New Orleans Mardi Gras" reviewed by Jim Santella


Ravaged by storms and sharing a tragic fate with neighboring communities last year, New Orleans doesn't have much to celebrate as Mardi Gras approaches. It hurts to think about the lives lost and the traditions that have been broken. Keepsake treasures have disappeared; a huge void has been left behind. However, we all know ...

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New Orleans

Label: Putumayo World Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Drop Me Off in New Orleans; I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues; Basin Street Blues; Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams; Baby, Won't You Please Come Home; The Devil Done Got Me Blues; Tin Roof Blues; Basin Street Blues; Give it Up (Gypsy Second Line); Going Back to New Orleans; Bye and Bye / When the Saints Go Marching In.

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Various Artists: Our New Orleans 2005

Read "Our New Orleans 2005" reviewed by AAJ Staff


One of the best and most tragic ways we have to know how much something matters is to go through the experience of having it taken away. To the people of lowland New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina was the end of a way of life. To the people of the United States, New Orleans herself winked out ...

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News: Music Industry

Katrina's Aftermath: the Jazz City's Music Still Speaks to Our Nation's Soul

Friday, September 16, 2005 By MATT SCHUDEL, THE WASHINGTON POST The last time I was in New Orleans, I watched a funeral parade march by. About 30 musicians, serious of purpose but hardly solemn, walked down the street playing a joyous old tune to honor the newly dead, a “second line" of stragglers and celebrants trailing ...

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Article: Film Review

Jack Sheldon in New Orleans

Read "Jack Sheldon in New Orleans" reviewed by Jim Santella


Jack Sheldon Jack Sheldon in New Orleans Kultur 2005 At a live 1984 performance in Lulu White's Mahogany Hall on Bourbon Street, Jack Sheldon and his all-star ensemble perform a program of straight-ahead jazz pieces that finds them sizzling as if there's no tomorrow. Sheldon's voice was then ...

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Article: Live Review

New Birth For New Orleans Brass Bands

Read "New Birth For New Orleans Brass Bands" reviewed by Todd R. Brown


You could hear it almost every night of the week: the call of a trumpet piercing the air, saying, “Here is where the party's at! The booming bass drum pounding out a hip hop rhythm, and the sizzling snare building on that beat with choppy, Latin-style syncopation. The trombone crying out with baritone joy, the sousaphone ...

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Article: Opinion

Phoenix Rising: A Credo on Behalf of New Orleans Recovery

Read "Phoenix Rising: A Credo on Behalf of New Orleans Recovery" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


More than 100 years ago, a new form of music emerged. It was based on African American spiritual music, the sound and rhythm of funeral marching bands, touches of American and Acadian French folk strains, and a special blend of joy and sadness that was and remains hard to describe. The new music that came into ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

A Brief History of the Blues

Read "A Brief History of the Blues" reviewed by Ed Kopp


When you think of the blues, you think about misfortune, betrayal and regret. You lose your job, you get the blues. Your mate falls out of love with you, you get the blues. Your dog dies, you get the blues. While blues lyrics often deal with personal adversity, the music itself goes far beyond ...


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