Is jazz
the only music I’ll hear in New Orleans? I hate Dixieland. Isn’t Harry
Connick Jr from New Orleans?
Lots of white people think
country/bluegrass music is uniquely American. They’re wrong.
(I’m
white, by the way, but I know history.) Country music was brought to
America by the
Celts: Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled
in the mountains of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Kentucky, West Virginia,
etc. Listen to celldh and it’s Merle Haggard without the Okie
accent. Jazz is like nothing anyone ever heard before, and they heard
it first in New
Orleans. Dixieland is just one version of jazz:
there’s also BeBop (Charlie Parker, Dizzy
Gillespie), Big Band
(Glenn Miller, Count Bassie, Duke Ellington), Cool (Miles Davis,
Dave Brubeck, Fusion (Miles Davis, Pat Metheny), Avant Garde (Ornette
Coleman, Don
Cherry, John Coltrane), Neoclassical (Wynton
Marsalis, Branford Marsalis), Jazz Lite
(Muzak). But New Orleans
isn’t limited to jazz: you can hear the standards (Pat O’Brien’s
piano bar), the Blues (House of Blues), Cajun (Patout’s Cajun Cabin),
Zydeco (Cajun +
R&B at Michaul’s), and what we call Swamp
(rock and roll with a dash of Cajun at
Tipitina’s, the club in
the movie “The Big Easy”). And lastly, even though you say you don’
t like it, try Pete Fountain’s and Preservation Hall for traditional
Dixieland.
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