New Orleans, Music

In the streets, cymbals, trumpets, wailing clarinets, a tuba solo that became a fugue and wrapped itself around the man who played it...a man putting down his trombone to wail St. James Infirmary Blues...Doreen Ketchens making her clarinet sing every grief a blues woman ever knew.

This city is all about music, and the musicians play for each other, riffing and blending, showing off for each other, earning each other's respect, pushing each other harder and truer, deeper into the root, the foundation, the very genesis of sound.