[Dixielandjazz] Tulane University, William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive

[Charles Suhor]

 philwilking <philwilking at cox.net> wrote:
> This is typical of the city. What is touted as a draw to the rest of the world as a major reason to visit this city? Jazz. What is harder and harder to find unless you know someone who knows some hole-in-the-wall where there might be a band you would care to hear? Jazz. This town allows to decay, or actively destroys, everything it can which makes it different from any other medium sized city in the USA.
 
Sad and true, Phil. My love-hate relationship with the City Formerly Known as New Orleans prompted these haiku--

Can hardly drive ten 
blocks without saying, Yeah, I 
played a gig there once.

New Orleans: theme park
with echos and aromas 
of what used to be.

When you label and 
enshrine the funky Ward Nine
it ain’t quaint no more.

New Orleans, you have
slapped cheap labels on your past and
shouted, Authentic!

No, citoyens, you
cannot coax a true past from 
a plastic present.

Give New Orleans some  
credit: It’s authentically  
self-imitating.

City of my birth, 
am I utterly loyal, 
or just addicted?