 | The Big Easy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.88 The accents sometimes drift, but the atmosphere (and music!) are on target.
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 | Interview with the Vampire
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.00 |
 | New Orleans
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.98 A forgotten late '40s movie that's dramatically awkward but historically ripe--nothing less than the birth of jazz.
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 | Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $2.93 A magnificent speculation on the dark life and death of the mythic jazz trumpeter Buddy Bolden.
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 | The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings by Louis Armstrong
Buy new: $54.98 / Used from: $16.99 Bolden's music was never captured, but his inheritor's was -- these sides are the Genesis of jazz.
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 | Goin' Back to New Orleans by Dr. John
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.00 His Gumbo album explained N. O. r & b, but this later concept album trace's the city's entire musical evolution.
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 | Rock 'n Roll Gumbo by Professor Longhair
Buy used from: $9.99 The embodiment (and patron saint) of the city's great tradition of truly weird, brilliant pianists.
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 | Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology by The Meters
Buy new: $24.96 / Used from: $12.74 Allen Toussaint's house band in the late '60s, and avatars of spidery, no-frills funk.
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 | Wheelin' and Dealin': The Definitive Collection by Lee Dorsey
Buy used from: $6.44 An irresistible soul vocal stylist, and Allen Toussaint's de facto alter ego on a stunning procession of great songs.
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