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...collective improvisation" that worked to create New Orleans jazz is not a model for the new city, Butler said. "What happens in music doesn't always translate positively and constructively to the rest of life," he said. The city should nurture the arts like other cities do - Chicago's jazz festival, Austin cable music channels, tax incentives for club owners - Butler said...
...White and Butler were neighbors in Gentilly. Like many of their fellow musicians their homes were temples to their art, filled with tapes and CDs, musical notes and instruments, many cherished after years of restoration and loving care. When word came that Katrina was heading to the city, White said he went to the shores of Lake Pontchatrain. "I spiritually communed with the lake and asked it what should I do and it said, you had better run," White said...
...went home, gathered up a few of his treasured clarinets, including one depicted in a large painting on the Superdome walls, and evacuated. Like Butler and so many others, when he returned he found his home had stood under nine feet of water for three weeks, and its contents churned and whirled into oblivion...
...alone in his newfound sentiments. Pain and anger are running though the veins of many New Orleans musicians these days. Ivan Neville, a member along with Butler of a newly formed group, The New Orleans Social Club, chose to sing an angry Vietnam-era antiestablishment anthem, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son," when the group converged in an Austin studio this spring along with several noted New Orleans names. While Ivan has settled in Austin, his father, Aaron Neville, who lost his home, is living in Nashville and cannot go home to his native city yet because he suffers from...
...course, the bright side of the New Orleans diaspora is that musicians like Neville are enriching the nation's music. Butler expects the disapora to influence sounds across the country. "Maybe five, ten years from now you are going to hear more street beats in their music," Butler said...