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Louisiana Sounds Across the Country Introduction "You can find Louisiana in everything," Landreth once told me during an interview, after demonstrating how to play Jimi Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic" as blistering Cajun blues. Here is more proof--a dozen dispatches from way down in the state, by a writer who has done the miles and vividly caught the people he's heard and met along the way. It is not the Louisiana in everything. But it's close."~ David Fricke -Rolling Stone July 14th 2015

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Jazz Music
Louis Armstrong was a native of New Orleans, Louisiana growing up in a poor neighborhood. His talent allowed him to become of the most famous Jazz legends today. Jazz legend King Oliver was actually good friends with a young Louis Armstrong. Armstrong's popularity grew from performing the great and Louis went from playing in Storyville to playing shows in Mississippi to playing shows in Chicago with King Joe Oliver. He and musical talents began to spread across the country and it was greatly admired and appreciated. This Louisianan greatly contributed to dispersing great sounds Louisiana to other places across the US.

Another famous Louisianan, Wynton Marsalis grew to become one of the most famous Jazz musicians. Wynton Marsalis won Grammy awards at the age of 22 years gaining national and worldwide fame. It is said that Wynton's hometown, NOLA, greatly influenced him and contributed to his successful career. Marsalis followed in his father's footsteps by sharing the art of Jazz with as many people as he possibly could. "When I play the trumpet, all my troubles disappear."-Wynton Marsalis