New Orleans Jazz Band: Dag
"They have a word down South to describe the way you feel when your packed into
a crowded dive at 1:00 AM, where the cigarette smoke is so thick it makes its
own weather; and the waitress is slinging bourbon and Fritos while some bad-ass
Jazz Funk band rocks the house as hard as Blue Ridge granite, and the sweat
flows down from the stage like the cloudy waters of Pamlico Sound. There's a
word for how you feel when you hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot, you
just gotta shout something. The word is: DAG!" - Columbia Records
There is only one place on earth where I though I could go to experience
the true meaning of Jazz and to try to place myself in the shoes of all of the
artists I have studied over the past semester. New Orleans, Louisiana is just
that place. On April 10, 1996, I boarded a United Airlines plane bound, non-
stop, for the "Home of Jazz."
My goal in New Orleans was to try and have a comparable experience to
that of one of......
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