{"id":6626,"date":"2015-05-05T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T00:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2015-05-06T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:54:25","slug":"another-take-on-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/05\/another-take-on-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Take On New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;MEYFVjxqnP84uoixbk5LZsPvVZCOBWgY&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Following yesterday&#8217;s <em>Rifftides<\/em> commentary about the New Orleans Jazz and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Larry-Blumenfeld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Larry-Blumenfeld.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Blumenfeld\" width=\"150\" height=\"1855\" \/><\/a> Heritage Festival, I heard from fellow jazz journalist Larry Blumenfeld (pictured). Larry is a New Yorker who in recent years has spent much of his time in New Orleans. He writes from there for <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> and other outlets about the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recovery following Hurricane Katrina, about its legacy of music and, frequently, about its mores and politics. In a report from this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s festival, he observed,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Beyond the Fair Grounds, in the real life of a city that a decade removed from utter disaster seems now rushing headlong toward a gentrified \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new\u00e2\u20ac\u009d New Orleans, such matters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d especially whether the sound of music spilling out is heard as glorious or not \u00e2\u20ac\u201d weigh heavy for those whose lives revolve around jazz and heritage long after the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two weekends are done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Larry reported extensively on big 2015 festival doings at the Fair Grounds and on smaller, often more interesting, ones throughout New Orleans. To read both parts, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/1146378\/spillage-and-flow-notes-from-the-2015-new-orleans-jazz\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blouinartinfo.com\/news\/story\/1147521\/further-spillage-the-good-kind-more-notes-on-the-new-orleans\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;MEYFVjxqnP84uoixbk5LZsPvVZCOBWgY&#8221;] Following yesterday&#8217;s Rifftides commentary about the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, I heard from fellow jazz journalist Larry Blumenfeld (pictured). Larry is a New Yorker who in recent years has spent much of his time in New Orleans. He writes from there for The Wall Street Journal and other outlets about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}