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WAY  DOWN  YONDER  IN  NEW  ORLEANS

The Crescent City

 

   007 - Live and Let Die  Clip of movie -still fun- includes Beatles title song,
                   the crocodile jump, main street, and ever-beautiful Solitaire with her
                   Tarot Trump

    Constantine - pix character Papa Midnite @ Red, Black, and White Wave

    Deja Vu - Denzel Washington
         Director: Tony Scott   GO The Gods of Film Making: Tony Scott

   Ocean's 13 - George Clooney and Brad Pitt

BRING 'EM HOME

 

 

 
 

 
Terence Blanchard, the trumpeter, bandleader
and composer, muses about Divine Providence,
our collective soul, and New New Orleans
where water meets the earth

[from NY Times article by Nate Chinen]

“A Tale of God’s Will,” like the album “Flow” before it, includes one song apiece by each young band member. Mr. Winston, a former New Orleans resident, contributed a haunting lament, “In Time of Need.” Mr. Hodge, a budding film composer who helped with the “Levees” score, lent his anthem, “Over There.” Mr. Parks, then still in the band, wrote a sonorous piece called “Ashe.” Mr. Scott brought in “Mantra,” with his own orchestration. (“You wrote it, you conduct it,” he was told.)

For his cultivation of these players, Mr. Blanchard is often likened to Art Blakey. A better analogy might be Miles Davis, whose young quintet of the mid-1960s featured compositions by all of its members and absorbed their characteristics.

Mr. [Herbie] Hancock, a member of that group endorses the idea. "They're able to take these compositions," he said of the musicians, "and immediately translate them into the particular sound of Terence's band, which in many ways reminds me of what used to happen with Miles."

Check "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," the 2006 documentary directed by Spike Lee

                             

            


John Bonham - Led Zeppelin in New Orleans      
                           When the Levee Breaks
                     - Chicago Southern/Soul

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss kick-off their Raising Sand World Tour in April with a brief run of shows that includes an April 25 performance at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.  
 robertplantalisonkrauss.com, robertplant.com, alisonkrauss.com, and tboneburnett.com.  

The Hurricane - classic drink [recipe] for the Crescent City

The rum-based Hurricane is enlivened by passion fruit juice. The Hurricane may have been around before Pat O’Brien’s French Quarter Bar began serving it in the 1930s, but it was that New Orleans institution that gave the drink its notoriety. The Hurricane was —and still is —so popular that the 26-ounce hurricane glass was created for it. The hurricane glass does bear an affinity to the hurricane lamp in shape, and those who imbibe two or three during Mardi Gras are certain to get all lit up.
 

CONGO SQUARE RHYTHMS FESTIVAL DEBUTS SEPT. 28-30, 2007
Presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
September 28-30, 2007
Louis Armstrong Park (Map This Location)
New Orleans
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
 
 
 Arlo Guthrie,  "The City of New Orleans," which Guthrie immortalized three decades 
 ago. Rescue mission for musicians from the Big Easy. The ABC article.
 

John Lee Hooker - blues, boogie, and New Orleans
Rare JLH Fillmore original
 

Spike Jones -  When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
                          Branford Marsalis @ my space
 

Brad Pitt - site project: New Orleans LARRY KING LIVE  Interview with Brad Pitt
                   in New Orleans, air date 12-05-07
                   Transcription  0712/05/lkl.01.html [complete conversation]
                   MakeItRightNola.org is the Web site you go to for update
 

SHRMX Menu - Cajun Stuffed Mushrooms and more soul food

Star Menu -  PhilZone Inn: Dr. John New Orleans Shrimp 
                      PhilZone Inn Drinks and Dessert                       
    

Oprah Winfrey -  Angel Network - Official Site
 
| featured in movie, OCEAN'S 13

Join Oprah's Angel Network and other organizations in the effort to rebuild homes and rebuild lives

 

 

Clean Water For Our Crescent City?

Dr. John [Gris-Gris, Babylon, Duke Elegant, Sippiana Hericane] the Night Tripper interview with HONEST TUNE’s John Sinclair

….I ain’t never got un-angry since the hurricane. Every night on the gig, no matter where we at, I give the audience an earful about my thoughts about it, you know?

Every night on the gig I get on my robe and – you know I’m crazy, so I don’t give a damn what I tell ‘em. And the only time we ever had any complaints about it –actually, I got one in Seattle that was a complaint that I didn’t say enough.

In Miami, the only negative thing I got was a mayor, I think it was Hollywood Florida, she came up and said, ‘We don’t use the “C” word in Florida.’

Doctor John replied, “I think we had dibs on possibly inventin’ corruption, so if you don’t like the “C” word here, what do you call it? What you call corruption?....”

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