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(10-20-2011 01:56 AM)Scythe Matters Wrote:  I grew up on New Orleans jazz. My Mom worked at the Montleone Hotel in The Big Easy and my Grandmother would take me in for dinner now and then. The dining room had a band - can you imagine!? A big one, too. I saw Al Hirt, Pete Fountain and Satchmo his own self! I was very small but I loved that sound

Funny 'dat Scythe, me too! I used to love to watch Pete Fountain in the Mardi Gras parades with his band, the "Half-Fast Marching Club"! I also saw Al Hirt, and, of all people, Fats Domino at the Endymion Ball...opening up for (yack!) Tom Jones! I've got a really good drummer friend that still lives there that has been on (World)tour with Bryan Lee for the past couple of years, he's good too. I really miss the club scene of the French Quarter, 'specially the jazz room at the Royal Sonesta. The Monteleone...man, THAT brings back some memories!