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...look into their hearts and perceive the common veins connecting every genre has won the attention of top international players who go to Singapore on tour. Harmonica virtuoso Toots Thielemans, drummer Billy Cobham, guitarist Tommy Emmanuel and vocalist Bobby McFerrin have all been in the audience. In 2002, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis showed up at a performance and was so taken by it, he grabbed his instrument and leapt onstage to play alongside a startled Ponnudorai, who did not recognize him. "He told me 'Ever since I got off the plane I've been hearing about nothing but you,'" Ponnudorai recalls...
...Orleans' modern-jazz scene. A versatile clarinetist-composer for greats from Ray Charles to Cannonball Adderley, Batiste drew national attention in the '80s as a member of the innovative band Clarinet Summit. The bebop master died of an apparent heart attack hours before he was to perform alongside Wynton Marsalis and Harry Connick...
...ain’t your bitch, I ain’t your ho,” cries out vocalist Jennifer Sanon in a style reminiscent of Billie Holliday. The sentiment defines “Love and Broken Hearts,” an attack on hip-hop culture from trumpeter Wynton Marsalis’ new release, “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary.” Sanon grieves the decline of the love song and the rise of “modern day minstrels” with “songless tunes,” who emphasize sex over...
...Efforts are under way. Wynton Marsalis is heading up a major push, dubbed Rebuild the Soul of America. But even before Katrina, New Orleans had only one major Fortune 500 company in town, Entergy, and a subsidiary of that company is now bankrupt. (Critics say new development, like the casinos, has failed to support the arts.) There are well-intentioned volunteer groups like Habitat for Humanity, which is building a musician's village, and clubs like the famed Tipitina's are aiming their musical revival efforts at the city's children, but the city's African-American residents have been...
...Tourism officials have rolled out a new advertising campaign, featuring a new slogan ("COME FALL IN LOVE WITH NEW ORLEANS ALL OVER AGAIN") and homegrown celebrities such as Emeril Lagasse, Wynton Marsalis and actress Patricia Clarkson. But prospective tourists could be forgiven if they're still confused. Almost since the slow recovery began, New Orleans has been sending mixed messages, begging the federal government for more financial help and asking the state to send in the National Guard to help battle a violent crime wave, while assuring skittish tourists and convention planners that the city's historic attractions are intact...