Here is an interesting artist that's new to me, and I wanted to share his music.

Can't talk about New Orleans and not mention this great lady, and New Orleans native.  Nothing French or Spanish here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMSWJxNlaww   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06gAdro-62E   



The last recording I purchased by the Duke.   The Duke was good at painting portraits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGZmE0dtb3k

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I’m more partial to this guy. Love it when he sings the blues in french.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqQkhA6zOCc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtvUKUWp06g

He music is closer to the delta.

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NOLA music is all over the map; for me personally, we're back where we started; Jon Batiste plays what's most appealing to my taste in music which also incorporates New Orleans piano.


      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCC1EEmJlo4


No matter how good Wynton Marsalis can blow the trumpet, he's composed very little that appeals to my taste. While he can play everybody else's music, where's his? What can you present that might cause me to reconsider?


When I hear this music I visualize New Orleans;


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx23PzFb1RU


        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlifDYDUuHI

Wynton started out with Blakey's Messengers, and everybody said he was arguably the worlds best trumpet player. That could still be true because he also plays classical music. While he might be the best jazz trumpet player, that did not include being the best jazz musician.

After Wynton left Blakey, and was on his own, the shortcomings in his jazz composing talents became apparent. But he also plays classical, and that bumped his stature up with the establishment.
 

  https://wyntonmarsalis.org/videos/view/ms.-b.c.-art-blakey-and-the-jazz-messengers-live-at-seventh-a...



There, Wynton is playing the hippest of the hip jazz, and he's blowing it out of the park.
   
Criticism of Wynton from Aficionados and other jazz musicians did not come along until after he left Blakey. That's when we discovered he wasn't as good at making his own music as we thought he would be.

That's it in a nutshell.

Wynton:

Then, pray tell, why he is at Lincoln Center?

You are out into no-man's land of the culture wars.   Gotta pick a side.

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