Jazz Hides In Plain Sight
We resist jazz or any art form because of who we are and how we see ourselves
In New Orleans, the land is flat and the air is heavy. And in 1906, when jazz was still seen as “hot music,” the big bands of Buddy Bolden and Papa John Robichaux would battle from two neighboring parks at the city limits. “People recall that Bolden’s sound sometimes floated three miles down from Carrollton to the French Quarter and Treme,” Joel Dinerst…