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 Professor Longhair Was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1992 |
 Huey "Piano" Smith |
 Allen Toussaint Was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1998 |
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Dave Bartholomew was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
1991
Cosimo Matassa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in
2012
Earl Palmer was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001
Allen Toussaint was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame in 1998
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
New Orleans Sound courtesy Rolling Stone's "Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll."
