The genesis of New Orleans jazz, which spawned rhythm/blues, Cajun / Zydeco music, and delta blues, took place nearly one hundred years ago. It seems that in the wake of recent disasters, one might suggest that many factors including Hurricane Katrina, the death of Clarence Gatemouth Brown and folklorist Alan Lomax have led to the destruction or silencing of this type of music and its contributors. Jazz guitarist Clarence Gatemouth Brown fought hard to keep …showed first 75 words of 1156 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1156 total…to persevering music of any kind should seek to salvage, save, and safeguard its integrity at all cost. Where the truth is covered up, the stone must be moved. If the recognition to those that truly deserve it is slighted, it must be transcribed over again until it is right. William Shakespeare once said "If music be the food of love play on and give me excess of it that it may sooth the soul."