New Orleans Sound

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

Joe Banashak

Cosimo Matassa

Joe Ruffino

Marshall Seahorn

Johnny Vincent

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

Lee Allen	Bobby Charles	Jimmy Clanton	Dixie Cups	Fats Domino
Lee Dorsey	Frankie Ford	Barbara George	Clarence "Frogman" Henry	Joe Jones
Ernie K-Doe	Chris Kenner	Smiley Lewis	Mickey and Sylvia	Earl Palmer
Lloyd Price	Little Richard	Irma Thomas	Shirley and Lee	Ike and Tina Turner

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 and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998
Little Richard was inducted into the Rock  and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986
Lloyd Price was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998

New Orleans Sound courtesy Rolling Stone's "Encyclopedia of Rock and Roll."

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