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...from a musical family and a musical city. His father Ellis is a pianist and educator; his elder brother Branford is a saxophonist; and one of his younger brothers, Delfeayo, is a trombone player. In New Orleans, a city as overflowing with jazz players as a bubbling pot of gumbo, Wynton was an early standout, a musical prodigy. As a teenager he played with drummer Art Blakey. Before Marsalis turned 22, he recorded a classical album that won a Grammy...
...LAVISH DINNER THAT CHEF John Folse prepared for a private party of Procter & Gamble executives tasted rich enough to make a cardiologist apoplectic. Folse, owner of the celebrated Lafitte's Landing restaurant near Baton Rouge, served thick seafood gumbo, sauteed herb-encrusted duck breast, sauteed speckled trout, fried soft-shell crawfish, salad with vinaigrette dressing and--for those who had room left for it--Mardi Gras cake. Every dish was prepared the old-fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That...
...Grammy in 1992 for Down at the Twist and Shout, her foot-stompin' tribute to Cajun music in general and Beausoleil in particular. "What drew me to Cajun?" ponders Carpenter. "In no particular order: percussion, fiddle, spices, waltzes, Acadian accordion, the tempo, lyrics of love and spirit, gumbo, wails, Highway 10, darkness, dance halls...
...accordions a year, some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop with chauvinistic folk homilies ("Some Cajuns are turning their back on a hot bowl of gumbo for a cold, tasteless American...
...place where you've been living, gone." Homes became islands in the sunny coastal necklace of glamorous enclaves like Malibu, which was cut off by the closure of the Pacific Coast Highway and canyon passes packed with mud. Santa Barbara's mission-style historical district was a waist-deep gumbo of guck. Dramatic rescues were everywhere on television as heroes dangled from helicopters, plucking the stranded from the water's path. Authorities revised the damage estimates daily: $200 million, $300 million . . . As the floods receded and more storms lay off the coast, the number of counties declared a disaster...