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With hardly any exceptions, the career of Harry Connick, Jr., could be divided in two — his 1st two albums encompassed straight-ahead New Orleans jazz and stride piano while his later on profession (which paralleled his increasing celebrity position) alternated between more sophisticated New Orleans music and pop vocals having …

Jazz guy Peter Bocage stands while a huge in the annals of New Orleans traditional jazz. Created over the Mississippi River from New Orleans in Algiers, Bocage adopted in his father’s footsteps, playing music at locations, dances, rent celebrations, and road parades through the entire Crescent City region. He shortly …