If you can't win the argument, change the subject; that sounds like politics 101 to me.
On to more good trumpet player from New Orleans. (Between me and you, I was in basic training with this guy named Petrie from Nawlins, that's the way he pronounced it, and he was born in New Orleans, had that accent that let you know it) Maybe things done changed since that time.
Nicholas Payton was born 1973 in New Orleans, and he's a top rated trumpet player;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWXELfT-pMk