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New Orleans is famous for its music, but for those of us who have never been there, can you describe what it is like growing up surrounded by music?
It makes for a different kind of rhythm in your step. It is a very different city from most cities in North America. The joke is that New Orleans is the northernmost city of the Caribbean as opposed to one of the southernmost cities of the United States. I actually grew up in the suburbs of New Orleans, which are not terribly different from the suburbs of any other town. But during Mardi Gras and the festival season the whole city is affected. My family was very enthusiastic in its participation in the carnival and street parade, Mardi Gras. Also my father had a collection of New Orleans rhythm and blues records, which he started as a boy in the 1950s, so I heard a lot of that sort of music in the house growing up.
So it was mainly rhythm and blues you were listening to when you were gro
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| With one of the most distinctive voices — and smiles — to ever come from New Orleans, Satchmo’s charisma, talent and compositions made him one of the first musicians whose influence extended. | |
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- Al Hirt (Alois Maxwell Hirt) - (November 7, – April 27, ) - New Orlean's trumpet virtuoso.