Voices of New Orleans

“ In books and official reports, the tragedy of Katrina was blamed on politicians, poverty and poor engineering, as it should have been. But there was another conversation that should have happened — not about blame, but about understanding. What did regular people do before, during and after the storm? Why? And what could they have done better?” — Amanda Ripley in her book, The Unthinkable

Music Friday: Jelly Roll

by David Rutledge
November 02, 2007

I’ve been looking through YouTube, trying to find a new video and song for this week. The Voodoo Fest was in town last weekend — an eclectic music festival at City Park. I thought it might provide something for our Music Friday. After perusing the videos from that festival, I hereby declare a ban on all 30 second music “videos” — like this.

Who is posting this stuff?

So, old man that I am, after watching enough video-phone clips from a rock concert, I decided to go back to some good old music. This week, we will go all the way back to pre-video times. After all, this is music Friday, right?

Here is one of the founders of jazz music, Jelly Roll Morton.

Comments

Colleen

November 2, 2007 11:12 PM

This was a great choice David - I really enjoyed listening to it. You should do more of these - some of those videos on you tube are so awful...and you're right; it is "Music" Friday after all!

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