Today’s Times Picayune had an important, breakthrough story about the New Orleans levee system. It’s not pretty, but it does contain a seed of hope. As is often the case, there was more left out of the story than what was included. The Picayune reported that the...
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About The FoodMusicJustice Project
In the dark years after the failure of the US Army Corps of Engineers levees (don’t call it Katrina), Jazz on the Tube produced a few hundred short articles in support of New Orleans. We also shot a lot of original video.
Unfortunately, hackers destroyed most of this site while we were focused on other matters and much of this priceless archival work was lost.
We’re in the process of trying to reconstruct it, a laborious and expensive process.
What we have been able to salvage so far were notes about our “Manchester Loves New Orleans” Project. The goal was to stimulate musical and artistic exchanges between the UK’s hippest music city and New Orleans.
The two cities have strong historical connections. If you throw Liverpool into the mix, the case can be made that modern pop music was invented by a collaboration between these two places.
– Ken McCarthy
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Levees.org press conference
You can help by going to this video on YouTube, viewing it there, ranking it, rating in and discussing it. The more activity a YouTube video gets, the higher its ranking and the more YouTube viewers it will get. Here’s the video:
Panorama Jazz Band
Ben Schenck (leader and clarinet), Aurora Nealand (alto saxophone) and the Panorama Jazz Band riff on a Hugh Masekela tune at French Quarter Fest 2008. The band also plays traditional, old time New Orleans jazz; klezmer; balkan; Mexican; Caribbean and who knows what...
Passing the torch in New Orleans
There’s a reason New Orleans has been a continuous source of music and musicians for the rest of the world for well over 100 years. Here are some clips of children being invited to perform with professionals at the French Quarter Fest.
Donald Harrison Jr.
Larry Blumenfeld did the interview. David Aman shot and edited. FoodMusicJustice.com produced it. This was one of the videos Larry showed at the International Jazz Educators Conference in Toronto last summer. Meanwhile, I shot a ton of nice stuff at the French Quarter...
Thelonious Monk