“We’d start out and we’d do a take. And usually we take the first take, sometimes we’d take the second, but, never the third.” – Charlie Rouse

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.

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