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I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.
All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black.
Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years.
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.
New Orleans is just a microcosm of Newark and Detroit and hundreds of other troubled urban locales.
What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
I love New Orleans. I love jazz. I grew up practicing jazz piano, and that's just been such a cool genre to me. There's a lot of talent there.
