Jazz & Blues Lounge

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is on of those events that has just kind of surpassed its original intent. It may have started out as a kind of small local festival to feature the jazz music associated with New Orleans, but since hurricane Katrina, it has taken on new symbolism. Each year since that storm, the festival has grown and grown and grown, as has the population. In other words, the festival has become a kind of symbol of the growth, rebuilding and regeneration of the city itself.
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I have had requests in the past to expand the sphere of coverage I do for this blog.  That can be a tough thing.  I am just one man, and Chicago is a big city and there is a lot of jazz and blues music going on here.  Trying to include such bastions of jazz and blues such as New York and Kansas City and New Orleans can be tough.  I don’t get free airline tickets or flown to concerts and events around the country by record labels and concert promoters (if you happen to be one, however, feel free …read more

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