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Todd A. Price, USA TODAY
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12:11 pm UTC Feb. 22, 2021
Louis Armstrong
Photo: Library of Congress, Illustration: Brian Gray, USA TODAY Network
As the National Museum of African American Music opens its doors, journalists from the USA TODAY Network explore the stories, places and people who helped make music what it is today in our expansive series, Hallowed Sound.
NEW ORLEANS, La. Saxophonist Donald Harrison, when he listens to the earliest jazz recordings, hears even older sounds. In the playing of those Black musicians from the early 20th century, Harrison discerns elements forged in New Orleans’ Congo Square.
A public market most days, on Sundays it was the one place in the South before the Civil War where Africans, both free and enslaved, could sing and dance in public. Here, the rhythms of Africa, played openly and with abandon, mingled with the musical forms of Europe.
The rebuilt intersection of First Avenue South and 15th Street awaited traffic Thursday afternoon.
By BILL SHEA
bshea@messengernews.net
Two busy intersections on the east side of downtown Fort Dodge were rebuilt last year, along with the heavily traveled section of 15th Street that joins them.
The junctures of Central Avenue and 15th Street and First Avenue South and 15th Street were far from the only places where construction was found in town. Aggressive work to improve sewers continued and the pond at Armstrong Park was reshaped in an effort to improve the quality of its water.
When the snow melts and construction crews can get to work this spring, more street and sewer jobs will be tackled.
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Mardi Gras celebrations are looking very different this year.
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Here are 10 facts about Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, that you might not know.Jon Cherry/Getty Images
With bars closed, parades cancelled and crowds restricted, New Orleans annual citywide celebrations for Mardi Gras are looking very different this year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Mardi Gras, French for Fat Tuesday, always falls on the day before Ash Wednesday, which is the start of the six-week-long season of Lent leading up to Easter. While Lent a time of reflection is typically observed by fasting from both food and festivities, Mardi Gras is usually marked by feasting and lavish celebration, thus its name. Mardi Gras revelries take place around the world each year, with some of the largest and perhaps most well-known in predominately Catholic New Orleans.
Airto Moreira
(L to R) Airto Moreira, Charlie Gabriel, Ben Jaffe
ASHEVILLE, NC, USA, February 12, 2021 /EINPresswire.com / Two powerful forces in the world of jazz come together in Resurrection! Airto Moreira and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Airto Moreira is a world-renowned jazz drummer and percussionist from Brazil, who exhibited great talent at a young age.
In his twenties he traveled to the U.S.A. in pursuit of Flora Purim, the woman with whom he had fallen in love, who had left Brazil to sing Bossa Nova with saxophonist Stan Getz. Over the years, Airto became a major musical figure by bringing his Brazilian percussion to American jazz, playing with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, and numerous other artists, as well as recording his own records.