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Contemporary zydeco’s most widely used performer, accordionist Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural was the organic successor towards the throne vacated from the death of his mentor Clifton Chenier; infusing his propulsive party music with strains of rock and roll and R&B, his urbanized audio — filled with details of synthesizer and trumpet …

Just because the ’80s saw a difficult bop/post-bop revival which was unofficially led simply by Wynton Marsalis, the ’40s and ’50s saw a Dixieland revival. Generally, the performers who arrived from the Dixieland revival motion from the ’40s and ’50s experienced no desire for playing bebop, that was fresh and …