The melody for “Yesterday” came to Paul McCartney in a dream, and he composed the music that next morning. He was intensely concerned that he’d subconsciously copied the melody from someone else and spent a month checking to see that he hadn’t.

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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