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When it comes to the origins of jazz, today often called BAM (Black American Music), there is one point that historians and scholars across the spectrum generally agree on: jazz would not exist were it not for Congo Square.

Like its indigenous Creole Cuisine, New Orleans’s musical genre was born a product of the different international cultures that came together in the port city at the Mississippi’s mouth. Enslaved Africans and free people of color contributed high-energy syncopation and polyrhythms; Europeans brought advanced harmony and four-note chords; blues music’s simultaneous birth nearby added “blue notes” and a new interpretation of quarter notes known as “swing”. Jazz’s older cousin, ragtime, set the stage for all of these elements to come together in New Orleans venues and morph into the high-energy, intricate, inherently improvisational musical genre beloved across the world for over a century, and according to some, set to experience a revival in 2024.

Jazz’s older cousin, ragtime, set the stage for all of these elements to come together in New Orleans venues and m

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NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSICIANS and
OTHER GREAT MUSICIANS REMEMBERED

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Al Hirt (Alois Maxwell Hirt) - (November 7, 1922 – April 27, 1999) - New Orlean's trumpet virtuoso. Skyrocketing to national fame in the 60's with hits like "Java", Al never forgot his roots and is lovingly called ‘Jumbo’ by the locals.  Al Hirt has performed with many of the Swing big bands, including bands by Tommy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and Benny Goodman.  Al Hirt is beloved by this city for will always be missed.

Allen Toussaint - (January 14, 1938 – November 10, 2015) - was one of America's greatest musical treasures. Singer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and producer.  This New Orleans native has been making hit records for over forty years.  He has produced, written for, arranged, had his songs covered by, and performed with music giants The Judds, Paul McCartney, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello, Patti LaBelle, Mac "Dr. John" Rebannac, Aaron and Art Neville, Joe Cocker, The (original) Meters, Glen Campbell, The Band, Little Feat, The Rolling Stones, Devo, Ernie K-Doe, Lee Dorsey, Irma Thomas, Etta James, Ramsey Lewis, Eric Gale and the countless others.

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