To showcase their musical culture, the City of New Orleans put on The International Jazzfest in 1968 & 1969, before George Wein, the founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, re-tooled into The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 1970 — which has continued for over fifty years.

The building on the cover of The Eagles’ “Hotel California” was the Beverly Hills Hotel, shot from an elevated cherry picker at dusk, to enhance the mystery.

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