Monday, February 21, 2022

Night in New Orleans (New Awlins) – v5

The Big Easy, New Awlins,
A world away, a lifetime,
so different, so foreign,
From my home, my experience.
 
My ears rang and sang
With the loud jazz music
Jambalaya / red crawfish taste like magic
To my tongue, my mouth
The crowds, colorful noise, spicy chicory coffee
Music like a brush fire.
 
I see it all/hear it all, still again,
Hot jazz, cool riffs,
Rhythm and movement
Hips grind to the tempo, percussion
Body sways, caught in that place.
 
I lick my lips and smile
in the memory, the cascade, crescendo
For the music and food
Of my soul, of life.
 
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edited February 21, 2022

Night in New Orleans - v5

 

Edited December 6, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html

(editing original version)

Edited December 5, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html

Edited September 20, 2012

“Night in New Orleans – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html

Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST

edited December 6, 2001

“Night in New Orleans

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html

mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993

and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996

&

edited November 18, 2018

Mood Indigo – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064114948794695680

November 16, 2018

Mood Indigo

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html

May 1993

Mood Indigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts

by Willie Humphrey

(93 years old in 1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band

Preservation Hall

&

edited November 16, 2018

Nice Tie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html

8/7/04 18:05

Nice Tie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html

partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/

of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/

at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club

https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/

http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 

726 St. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA

He was the bass player for the band and

he was the bass player in

“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie

Angel Heart (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

I gave him my tie, right off my neck

(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at

Downtown Crossing in Boston).

&

edited April 27, 2015

Congo Square – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 4, 2018

Amazing Grace – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited April 16, 2015

Amazing Grace – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html

July 12, 2004 18:56 –

Amazing Grace

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html

Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville

at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest

https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 

https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage

http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm

during a real wedding.

The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.

I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage

in the French Quarter that night.

&

edited April 13, 2015

Congo Square – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html

July 12, 2004 19:15.

Congo Square

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html

Congo Square, special area at the

1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

 

 

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