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In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual life joins the big stream of Life, cut some decent steps, for God's sake.
Tom Piazza Quotes: In New Orleans the funerals
Their Big Chief, Bo Dollis, would marshal them all together and they would start off down Dryades, with Chief Bo chanting one of the Indian songs accompanied by drums and tambourines, and the whole gang shouting back the antiphonal response.
Tom Piazza Quotes: Their Big Chief, Bo Dollis,
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached ... [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz ... This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book.
Tom Piazza Quotes: A portrait of the young
She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,
Tom Piazza Quotes: She had arrived in dirty
And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.
Tom Piazza Quotes: And they went off down
Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it's as if the audience--dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing--is part of the band. They are two parts of the same thing. The dancers interpret, or it might be better to say literally embody, the sounds of the band, answering the instruments. Since everyone is listening to different parts of the music--she to the trumpet melody, he to the bass drum, she to the trombone--the audience is a working model in three dimensions of the music, a synesthesic transformation of materials. And of course the band is also watching the dancers, and getting ideas from the dancers' gestures. The relationship between band and audience is in that sense like the relationship between two lovers making love, where cause and effect becomes very hard to see, even impossible to call by its right name; one is literally getting down, as in particle physics, to some root stratum where one is freed from the lockstop of time itself, where time might even run backward, or sideways, and something eternal and transcendent is accessed.
Tom Piazza Quotes: Mac Rebennack, better known as
she was practicing a skill that both her parents had acquired as children, a way of maintaining a substitute life
Tom Piazza Quotes: she was practicing a skill
New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing.
Tom Piazza Quotes: New Orleanians knew how to
The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.
Tom Piazza Quotes: The past in New Orleans
And so they couldn't have known exactly how despicable a lie it was when the president told the news media later that week that nobody could have predicted the levee breaks.
Tom Piazza Quotes: And so they couldn't have
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