Odyssey Records
1012 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70112-2506

When: 1992

What: Using a “call and response style” party vibe, Mardi Gras Indian chants and dance call-outs, TT Tucker and DJ Irv’s single helps to launch the N’Awlins sound known as “Bounce.”

In celebration of Black Music Month, TheUrbanDaily’s “It’s All Black Music” presents 100 Rewarding Black Music Moments, sponsored by Southwest Airlines.

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“Everyone, calm down. I met with mr. Cent about a potential project. There’s nothing to report yet, ill let you know if there is,” she wrote Wednesday night.

Chelsea and 50 were recently snapped getting close at a jazz bar in New Orleans, but sources say It’s more of a hookup thing, whenever they are in the same town.

Chelsea Handler & 50 Cent Are Dating [RUMOR]

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This past weekend, quite a few people saw 50 Cent and Chelsea hanging out in New Orleans after her show and took to Twitter to share with the rest of us.  I found these tweets over at necolebitchie.com:

Wow 50 Cent and Chelsea Handler were just next to us at Mimis and we didn’t even realize it until they bailed! They are together and hopping Nola hotspots tonight in two black stretch Suburbans. (She is in town for a performance, not sure about fitty.) -504oto on facebook

Yes: Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent in the house. NOT KIDDING. -Richard Read on Twitter

Gotta love bourbon st.!!! Can’t believe we just saw chelsea handler, josh wolf. And 50 cent!!!! -Kate Hollister

50 Cent was spotted with Chelsea Handler in Nashville last Friday. I am surprised the media didn’t pick up on this. -EJohnson11

Chelsea recently broke up with her boyfriend, so I say get it girl!!

Take a look at Chelsea talking about her pretend boyfriend with Mel B:

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President Barack Obama visited New Orleans to get a tour of the city 5 years after Katrina.  During his visit he sat down with NBC News’ Brian Williams.  President Obama talks to Williams about the role of government in post-Katrina New Orleans, cleaning up the Gulf and his faith. Check out the conversation about faith at the 10:30 mark.

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One year after the levee’s broke in New Orleans, HBO aired a documentary by award-winning film producer Spike Lee.  The film, “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” chronicled the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  Lee promised to come back, and he did.  His new film, “The Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise,” looks at post-Katrina New Orleans five years later.  The film will air on HBO during the five-year reunion.  Check your local listings for air times and dates.

If you’re a fan of Janet Jackson, Mary J, Trey Songz, Keri Hilson and Alicia Keys, and want a front row seat to this two-hour concert special.  Well TV One is the only place you’ll get an exclusive pass to the concert of all concerts, TV One Night Only: Live from the Essence Music Festival! Filmed at the Essence Musical Festival in New Orleans, this two-hour concert special features some of the hottest stars ever, from old to new school—your musical appetite will be satisfied from beginning to end.

Just in case that isn’t enough—the show is packed with other hit-makers like LL Cool J, Earth, Wind & Fire, Keri Hilson, Charlie Wilson, Jill Scott, Monica, Gladys Knight, and much more!

Don’t miss TV One Night Only: Live from the Essence Music Festival, only on TV One.Sunday, August 29 at 9pm (ET)

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jive (origin unknown) – 1. the jargon of jazz musicians or enthusiasts. 2. deceptive, nonsensical or glib talk. 3. to play or dance to jive music.

jazz (Origin unknown) — 1. music originating in New Orleans at the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, varying degrees of improvisation and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre ranging from simple scale playing, through chromaticism, to atonality. 2. liveliness; spirit; excitement.

Jazz comes from the mixture of blues, ragtime, brass-band and syncopated dance music that could be heard in the streets of the Storyville red-light district of New Orleans at the turn of the last century. The first music known as jazz was the New Orleans style, (later called Dixieland) in which each player in a small group would collectively improvise, or improvise in such a way that the parts combined into a balanced, integrated whole.

Jelly Roll Morton is considered the first true jazz composer – he was the first to write down his jazz arrangements in musical notation — “Jelly Roll Blues,” in 1915, was the first published jazz arrangement in history — and Jelly Roll wrote many of the songs that would become staples in the jazz repertory.  In the Twenties virtuosos like trumpeter Louis Armstrong began to fly high on solo lines separate from the accompanying instruments, which became the formative idea of jazz for the next few decades.

The big band swing era of the Thirties and Forties brought harmonic and rhythmic revolutions to jazz, exemplified by the work of Count Basie and Duke Ellington.  Ellington has been called “perhaps the single most important creative talent in American popular music history.”  The Duke’s unparelled genius as a composer ranged from three-minute pop jewels like “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got that Swing),” the song that gave the swing era its name, to ambitious works like “Black, Brown and Beige,” a 50-minute classical-style suite introduced at Carnegie Hall in 1943.  While the Duke was commended for his composing skills, the Count was lauded as “the” bandleader of the era, nurturing the talents of such powerhouse soloists as saxophonist Lester Young (Young, or “Prez,” was “Lady Day” Billie Holiday’s favorite musician  — they gave each other those nick-names) and vocalist Jimmy Rushing.

Be-bop was pioneered in the late Forties by artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and Charlie Parker, and is considered the first kind of modern jazz.  Named by the onomatopoeic mimicking of the staccato two-tone phrase distinctive in the form, when it emerged, be-bop was rejected by not only the general public, but by many musicians as being unmusical and unlistenable.  “Cutting contests” were first seen between rival brass bands on the streets of New Orleans in the 1870s, and were popular among bop musicians.  Late into the night at after hours joints, musicians would try to play each other off the stage by creating a louder, faster, more brilliant or innovative sound.  Bop spawned  “cool”, hard bop and modal playing in the Fifties, first explored by Miles Davis.  Cool jazz derives its name from what music critics identified as an understated or subdued feeling Miles’ playing, and his 1949 ground breaking recording The Birth of the Cool.

In the Sixties, saxophonist John Coltrane combined Eastern and Western notions of improvisation, and another sax player, Ornette Coleman, began to rework the idea of collective improvisation from the early years of jazz.  Miles Davis experimented with a hybrid of jazz and rock that became “fusion” and spawned Seventies groups like Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra and informed the work of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and Steely Dan.  In the Eighties and Nineties jazz came back to its roots in New Orleans as the horn-playing Marsalis Brothers and pianist Harry Connick Jr. found success with neo-traditional styles of jazz.  Today, jazz continues its tradition of change and continues to cross-pollinate: with punk, New Age, world music, rap and mainstream pop.

– Meredith Rutledge for the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

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It premiers at 10 p.m. tonight on HBO. The 10-episode series examines is set in New Orleans in the fall of 2005, three months after Hurricane Katrina decimated the city. life in post-Katrina New Orleans. The series is already earning critical acclaim. Treme, pronounced treh-MAY refers to a New Orleans neighborhood and features some familiar faces from “The Wire.” It examines the theme of desperation and poverty through music.

For a full review of the new show read LA Times TV critic Mary McNamara’s review.

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Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that’s who.

Ain’t kidding. Put away those paper bags forever: Drew Brees and the Saints are NFL champions, rallying to beat Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 Sunday night in one of pro football’s most thrilling title games.

Brees tied a Super Bowl record with 32 completions, the last a 2-yard slant to Jeremy Shockey for the winning points with 5:42 remaining. The Pro Bowl quarterback was chosen Super Bowl MVP.

New Orleans’ lowly ranked defense made several key stops, an onside kick sparked their second-half comeback, and Tracy Porter’s 74-yard interception return on a pass from Manning, of all people, clinched it.

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