“Dee Dee’s Feathers” Celebrates New Orleans

                                    
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	Well it actually happened after the 	opening of the what is now called the New Orleans jazz market 	which was conceived by Irvin Mayfield who is my partner on the 	CD while we were at dinner after the ground breaking ceremonies for 	the building of the jazz market I suggested to Irvin that we 	should put you know a little simple CD together that we can sell at 	

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the center and that would just show the people of New Orleans that 	I’m seriously involved with the jazz market with the New Orleans Jazz 	Orchestra with Irvin Mayfield urban thought it was a great idea so we 	recorded it in three days and listening to the recorded product at 	the end of the three day sessions I thought the music was way 	better than I had riginal we thought it would come out to be and urban 	Agreed and I’m then I played it for some key people and they thought that it should 	

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be a commercial CD and that’s what happened I 	was you get to know her roommate feels been invited me to the against 	artist with him in Minneapolis Minnesota when he was the artistic 	director for the jazz program of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra 	and that was six years ago and I really didn’t know anything about him prior 	to to that engagement and it was kind 	of a mutual love story is a cholesterol that develop between 	

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us and the. The question between the two Q It just 	seems like you’ve really connected very well in a fairly short amount of time. Yes yes we have I mean 	you know actual times gather around the states haven’t been that many up until the the 	CD This is the first time that I have found a jazz musician 	who is also a great entertainer so we’ve become like 	a comedy team on stage as well as you know producing 	you know some of what I think is the some of the best music to ever come out of New Orleans 	

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and dusted for jazz in general so it’s been a wonderful a 	wonderful meeting up for mine in people’s past 	him and 	you’ve got some very well known New Orleans standards as well songs like any James Infirmary 	big I’m curious how you go about putting your own personal stamp 	on songs they’ve been heard so often over the years for big she for example we 	recorded it and I said oh I’m going to sing it like maxing it Dr John 	

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and and then you know once we decided that you know we were going to make it a an album 	I asked actually he would come in and and record it and then he graciously agreed to do 	it and he he was when he heard my birds and the baby are you trying to sound 	like me at that yes yes but now 	I won’t. You know St James Infirmary Urban had explained to 	me that when people do that song it orally they personalize the 	lyrics to go with you know something that pertains to the to the individual that that’s 	

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performing it so urban rewrote the lyrics for me and so 	we talked about that you know if my love of a fashion and shoes and clothes and so we 	encompass bad he knows that I like sexy men and so that’s when he said you know you came 	up with the line give me sixteen men think all men to hold might have fitted so that I added 	fair to the will play with 	me in them papa she was playing a product and 	thought you know 	

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the girl fans they still jealous and then play dirty 	when you were recording in New Orleans last year and when you’ve been down there you’re in the in the ten years since Katrina 	what have you seen in the city in terms of the trying to to rebuild itself after 	such a tragic event ten years ago you see how the city has come back 	you see that the tourism has come back but then when you step outside of the to rethink areas 	and you go into the register the residential areas that’s when you see well there’s 	still a lot of work to be done and then you know as I get to know different musicians in the 	

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New Orleans now Jazz Orchestra or no Joe as we call them the orchestra Irvin 	Mayfield father drowned in Katrina you know and here 	we are you know ten years later and you know you can talk about it like 	yeah that happened in the back of my mind I go I know even though he puts 	on a good front I know there’s still got to be some pain there. Well 	certainly I can’t talk to you D.D. without talking about your connection here champagne Urbana if 	I got a new it’s a Qur’an or center here a couple of years ago and I could just feel 	

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the connection you had with the audience that night if you could just talk about like neck connection you have 	with this community after you can after all these years even though it’s a community that adopted me 	and I’m very still very close to the Bridgewater family whenever I come 	to the campus to do anything and burp I’m coming to visit I 	just feel this great sense of of of being at home thank you very much 	for spending some time with us and here today tell us all about it. Oh thank you so much for 	for biting me to be on your show. Brian and to kind of connect with your listeners Hi 	

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everybody the religion.