At the mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans stands at a crossroads where Native American, French, Spanish, English, African, Caribbean, and Latin-American cultures have mixed for over two centuries. a capital of American music at least since the Civil War, the city has shaped rhythm & blues, rock & roll, and reggae no less than it's ragtime, jazz and Delta blues.
The barrelhouse piano of Kid Stormy Weather and Sullivan Rock, the crude but gentle vocal styles of Creole folksingers, and dance from Cuba and Trinidad were the sources from which pianist Professor Longhair forged his prototypical rock & roll in the mid-Forties. Dave Bartholomew assembled a band that featured many of the city's most inventive musicians and combined the loose cohesiveness of the best jazz ensembles with the "secondline" syncopation and raucous bass work of the Mardi Gras parade bands
At the mouth of the Mississippi, New Orleans stands at a crossroads where Native American, French, Spanish, English, African, Caribbean, and Latin-American cultures have mixed for over two centuries. a capital of American music at least since the Civil War, the city has shaped rhythm & blues, rock & roll, and reggae no less than it's ragtime, jazz and Delta blues.
The barrelhouse piano of Kid Stormy Weather and Sullivan Rock, the crude but gentle vocal styles of Creole folksingers, and dance from Cuba and Trinidad were the sources from which pianist Professor Longhair forged his prototypical rock & roll in the mid-Forties. Dave Bartholomew assembled a band that featured many of the city's most inventive musicians and combined the loose cohesiveness of the best jazz ensembles with the "secondline" syncopation and raucous bass work of the Mardi Gras parade bands
Pioneers |
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![]() Joe Banashak |
![]() Cosimo Matassa Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012 |
![]() Joe Ruffino |
![]() Marshall Seahorn |
![]() Johnny Vincent |
Dee Jays |
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![]() Professor Longhair Inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1992 |
![]() Huey "Piano" Smith |
![]() Allen Toussaint Inducted into the Rock Hall in 1998 |
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![]() Lee Allen |
![]() Bobby Charles |
![]() Jimmy Clanton |
![]() Dixie Cups |
![]() Fats Domino Inducted into Rock Hall of Fame in 1986 |
![]() Lee Dorsey |
![]() Frankie Ford |
![]() Barbara George |
![]() Clarence "Frogman" Henry |
![]() Joe Jones |
![]() Ernie K-Doe |
![]() Chris Kenner |
![]() Smiley Lewis |
![]() Mickey and Sylvia |
![]() Earl Palmer Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001 |
![]() Lloyd Price |
Little Richard |
![]() Irma Thomas |
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![]() Ike and
Tina Turner |
New Orleans Sound courtesy Rolling Stone's "Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll."