https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/17/don-vappie-jazz-creole-the-blue-book-of-storyville-review-delicate-rhythm-and-banjo An easy-going singer, virtuoso of the banjo and larger-than life character, Don Vappie is as New Orleans as they come. His mixed-race Creole ancestors were living in the city before Napoleon sold it to the US in 1803. A century later, Creoles, still speaking their own version of French, accounted for many of the […]
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