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John's a 7th Ward man from New Orleans which has just moved out of the jazz epicenter It's Amanda after the levees failed and this is where I ended up and had to pay him a visit across the lake Riggs found a new kind of people I mean look at the trees and he always dance and for me he's also hold his golf swing. But we didn't come to New Gold Now let's get to the stage we'll kick it off with Chairman Powell playing a New Orleans brass band standard little lives. I said I'm. Going to. Let. You go put up your wife to. Come. Down the hind. End of Time. Let him live. Long. Long. Long long long. Long long. Long long. Long long long. Comma. No longer. Among. But. Oh. Well. Let me. I'm. Going. To go down. There was little Miles a jail cell and how a little band the drums and vocals Roderick Paul and soprano Chris Everett on a battered bass Charlie Gabriel will turn into a car Roussel will be 0 dollars 10 a pound. It was recorded at the new George enjoys We jazz it here it's a. It's named after the couple who launched the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in 1970 s. The Newport. Yes this will among many other things. The center now houses a state of the art concert space a patio out back and classes up stairs so far cry from the tribulation and how I grew up in. Janice lived around the corner his entire life Rob I'm going to wrap this up help. Sandpile the real king from their welcome tomorrow. To permit rockers actually given the name King of Treme and he lies to work on the streets in the Jackson Square years ago in Austin for tips. And he just also one day said May is a valuable real key to Treme ourselves so there you do it ever says that every time he introduced me on stage and tell people that so I just adopted you know the name growing up as a child have so many memories about you know great things that happened for me I could have been born nowhere else in the world. My grandparents block this coming with thank you for that. On me now was a long time ago. So you know we keep it as a family home we've been helping many many times to 3 months to sell but we don't want to sell because it means so much to me to live here Sharon's got the New Orleans pride and swagger about him not only comes from a deep sense of history family history musical history American history. As one of the most historical oldest black neighborhood in America it's all right here. Considered the birthplace of jazz great people from Africa back when I was using these people direct open boat from Africa. You know really well a lot of free slaves were able to go in congregate on Sundays and perform and just be themselves you know for that one day how many hours of you know when that's well a lot of great rhythm came out of that on that point across the street from Sam his childhood home Congo Square I grew up playing there's a key here. Every day almost not really knowing the history of it until I grew up as a man it's. This neighborhood this is so historical because you got a lot of great musicians that come out of the. Special drummers you know the great Earl Paul McKay mothers and their brother in the same. Row to you through their riches. You know he recorded all the riches records he became the most record his drama in America Earl Paul he recorded all the stuff in Los Angeles Flintstones would be which and all the stuff you watch on t.v. Which. Is in my sixty's I always consider myself as really capturing the real tales of real noir you know. More real noise. Has seen a lot of change. In real practice. Help We had a wonderful place down the street historical Caledonia bar where Professor Longhair got his start you know frequently passed as a kid walk in the school and that was like one of the major places in the law he wrote the song Tipitina's and that bar on. Caledonia where he would go on top I was about 11 years old and I want to play one song and they passed I had around it and I come up of $78.00 out and the God in the band was make a pointed out of well again you know. When I'm walking to school in the morning they've been partying up all night long and I could hear him up that plane . You know sometimes he'd be playing against the planet piano Professor Longhair and I'm a king and all and. Most of the stuff that he did morning reported. In all said. Allen Toussaint it was also part of that New Orleans lineage he played Professor Longhair signature style the piano if any updated brought in elements of or be better at the heart of the contemporary New Orleans trip. To son died in 2015 Shannon played a little tribute to this local hero with an old spiritual when we all get to have well let him set it up from the city. Because we came in to pay homage to a great man that I had an opportunity to not only meeting but able to work with and it was such a great experience for me. I promise myself by with. This person because of what he has done for me. To the time that I met him and no one else. And. Colonise you know we always do this song fall out different love ones that have gone on people was. And I would like to none other than to do it for this gentleman the one all of us to Alan to say that. I was on the road with Alan maybe 3 years ago with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and he and I. Did this number. And we want to do the song. That's here when we all get to heaven after Dad will pick up the plays with the chief written by Earl King made famous by Professor Moore here played by pretty much every New Orleans musician since way we owe on. To him one. What a day. Oh rejoicing. That will be. When we. See Jeev. We will. Thank you. Thank me rest in peace Alan thank you. Thank. You. Thank you. For all. The living. Room. Through the. Long. Oh. Cool. That. Blog all. Our own to do it. Big. They there was big Before that it was when we all get there and when we come back we'll all go to church so. The merits. Support for Jazz Night in America comes from the Winfield foundation the Argus fund the door stoop charitable foundation supporting the performing arts medical research and Child Wellbeing the National Endowment for the Arts our works the Gilchrist foundation in support of N.P.R.'s commitment to coverage of the arts and the John d. And Catherine t. MacArthur Foundation recognizing exceptionally creative individuals this year's MacArthur fellows are at Mack found dot org This is n.p.r. . Done from the top this week is the youngest ever to all of the Chopin each meets with a major label. Turns out it's a practicing Buddhist learning how he consciously brings the power of meditation to his music from the top this week with me Christopher Riley. 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And while I leave mass I go to the Baptist church because of the music scene you know but I'm getting both of the cultures to see all. The you know that I go to yes. You know. I don't think of a lot of stuff that you know I mean let's let the man play the pipe organs of some other culture you know and I go to my Baptist read my map and I have and all the well little red shell that Sharon took us down the street to yesterday just a few doors down from his parents' house inside there's a low stage with a full drum set and huge kitchen you know you let your bass your drums you get so anally have you would have a horn set on the big band and church was unbelievable with temping roams. You know but so so extatic. A great rhythm. A little good group to make people move what grade him. You know need all of that for every one of the convinced next to the bar is a very brief music to the Holy Spirit here for the 335 churches going across to Sharon is my very big. He basically grew up with a tambourine and a violent chain. As a kid growing up I was to be playing outside with him over there in the loft. And. All October as a very young child was how great. The music in them really that I heard coming out of the church as I was just passing by I stare out of the blue eyes and look into the bay you know see the people in worship and go a. Lot of the women went whole way of life with wife raising money. And the all pretty tame. Pirates of all the men played pool but most of the women. There was such a passion we couldn't relive that through a play and so I would I just going you know and it just really captured me you know as a child I just couldn't move with all of the guys that come on come on in this group live I'm not on the Olympic distance you know because I don't feel this it was pollo you know and in the end the hammering on the cause is a piano the bass guitar. And. As I see it to the rather than the music was so powerful and groove. We have a song if you move. Up in their head you know you can imagine. Colorado will move around with the only solution. That. Route. I'm going to finish last which I. Always love. He can play that tambourine like Thank you all thank you. Let's hear some more Janet signature technique for suicide has been the theme for mass you remember the television show and movie from the seventy's it was written by Johnny Manziel it sets got the Jazz treatment by our margin mall and eleven's among others now let's hear Shannon powers take on this is suicide of a. Feel That the suicide is paid. When we come back the king of truly teams up with the voice of New Orleans. Christian McBride and this is Jasmine. And she gives them. To. Come. And support for jazz like in America comes from the Wyncote foundation the Argus farm the door stoop charitable foundation supporting the performing arts medical research and Child Wellbeing the National Endowment for the Arts artworks the Gilchrist foundation in support of N.P.R.'s commitment to coverage of the arts and the John d. And Catherine t. MacArthur Foundation recognizing exceptionally creative individuals this year's MacArthur fellows are at mac found dot org This is n.p.r. . Christian McBride This is Jazz made America a New Orleans with Shannon Powell and John Booth I was born in raising the son of. Louisiana just grew up in a big family that goes back generations and city the 8th. Almost 10. Creole Catholics. Lynette 1000000 a lot of people. Who are going to college standard business. Different paths. But eventually came back to music. Realize that the voice was very powerful and that it could move people. To Joy. Even to the point where they. Just aggravated must niceness one study and then but it took a while to embrace is unique voice little encouragement for. The great pleasure of spending. Stevie Wonder we Raf We ate we talked. We really had a great time at mass and want us to do it is basically to me I needed patients and determination but he also gave me a boost in the sand that I had a signature voice and I was like What is that. And this is a sound like you know sound like anybody else I was a little. Shy of saying because you know I have a very high tone of voice and a lot of people didn't think I could sing if they hit me speak they said Oh. You don't sing you can't talk you know I love yeah. I'm realizing I had to embrace my own voice I can only do what I can do. And that my style would be determined by my lip limitations and just push myself to the limit Well if I don't love you baby you turn into a great entertainer with a following a real tear. After Hurricane Katrina to use weekly gig start to feel a little like a church the occurrence of Dillard knew all along I didn't realize how important the music was until and that back in 04 was just like you need gone do you dig your sing few tunes you know you might but you realize that people literally they needed that music and they also needed to sing together so I would pick tunes you know positive soon as you know and ask people to join me and sing along you know because people just felt included never felt it was almost like a church service it was cathartic a place for the community to get together to grieve to comfort to celebrate even to scream. Came back after the levees failed and there was you could just feel the tension in the place Cafe Brazil. And you could just feel the tension man in the room everybody was just like we didn't know where we were headed you know if you ever going to get back and you saw the military vehicles riding by would you know these young kids with their weapons out and stuff . If you felt someone who occupied but and you know that you would never get back on all free. You could cut the tension in a room would a butter knife that was just like that so I walked the luminousness you know everybody was there and I asked everybody to stand up. Can you I want to buy just scream I want you just really into the top of your voice if we just just scream and everybody did and the room shook I can't explain psychologically would it did but it was a release released and relieve them in some Conaway you know so. And it also. Made it easier for me. Just talking to us from his home and man to build these you. Know most newbies may say this is germ duty leaving his band. Now launch a call a long. Way down the Mississippi. River then I. Go down the river. For. A. Girl. That was basic street please be gentle bt And it's been borne Pickford alto saxophone and flute Wendell Bruni is trumpet Christopher Cole clarinet Mark McGrain trombone Christopher tart Duke guitar noble Zaki or bass and Herman the boardrooms recorded at the Jazz and Heritage Center in New Orleans you don't need to go to a venue to hear music it's everywhere the sounds were always you could hear bands playing 2nd Mile and then coming through the street for a funeral and transsexualism plan and one point of time before actually sits watching one of the 10 you know you can count from the sounds come together there was always music and always music and you know people practicing and Schumann's and live next door to. Mr Glass. Who says he was the oldest living drama he played for the you that you regard as band who's always music you know in a neighborhood sanctified church in my backyard so on Sundays Therefore I would go listen to the Gothic chants in the Catholic Church you know I would hear them walking out on the 12 on them you know and. Falling out around the corner and sanctified church so I want him miss out here our neighbor playing in the Jackson shoes cooking these fabulous screens and she's. Just so we had some great. Sights and sounds and smells and just turn them into a little song Treme. That came out of me because I was said that home and I saw. A room that I saw thanks to. The best little song turned into a hit you might know it as the beer for the h.b.o. Series Treme about post Katrina new it was always astonished that he even used that song for the series. Because I never mention New Orleans and I never mention a French Quarter and I don't mention the river. Another man above average in my saying on him said anything cliches. But it's to give you a picture of where he was. What it was capture a certain essence of the city something only a native New Orleanian could fit. Naturally he seemed the king of Treme shelling out to record the song they played it together again on the Jazz and Heritage Center stage let's hear Treme would jump into a chant of. People . Have come. By my oh. Hell. Of a. Preacher. This is. And I'm glad. That. I'm a. Bad. Apple. That. I'm. I. Am not. A. Man. Who. 6 sing. Along. Ever since the fall. Just like the mirror there was a production of the Biggio javelin. News it was reported by. Missed by David towne this week's episode is written produced by Joey with Alex and . See the producers. Producers are. Gavriel on. Big Brother. Who. May. Be. More. 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