Word: celestines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lucky ones find seats close up at the bar, where the music is loudest, and with a deference equaling that of longhair purists, listen to an eight-piece band playing oldtime, home-town jazz. The leader of the band is a smiling, coal-black trumpet player named Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, 69 (or maybe 74), who has been playing the same kind of straight, hard jazz for more than 50 years...
...usual, at this week's performance, Papa Celestin was blowing Dixieland hot and strong. Sometimes it was St. Louis Blues. Other times it was Muskrat Ramble, When the Saints Go Marching In, High Society, or one of the other old standbys. The blues were played as blues, the marches as marches. The fans kept yelling for more...
...Orleans celebrates its Vieux Carré with Dixieland bands ("old-style" like that of Papa Celestin, and such jazzed-up "new-style" as Sharkey Bonano's), and with a cooking program featuring chefs from Antoine's, Arnaud's, Galatoire...