Louisiana - Best of the Big Easy - Overview Portfolio

A "Best of" Gallery - A collection of favorites shot during four days in April, (the week between the NCAA Final Four Tournament and Easter,) 2012. This is the party, the people and the tradition that is the French Quarter, the Business & Garden Districts and two western Mississippi Antebellum estates. These images are our favorites from the more detailed, individually featured, accompanying 16 galleries - organized by topic. Enjoy the Big Easy! Thanks for stopping by!

From the 15th floor level of the Pare Marquette, or street level, the more modern part of New Orleans is worthy of study..
New Orleans Business District Architecture smartbusarch smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans Uptown Architecture
From the 15th floor level of the Pare Marquette, or street level, the more modern part of New Orleans is worthy of study..
New Orleans Business District Architecture smartbusarch smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans Uptown Architecture
From the 15th floor level of the Pare Marquette, or street level, the more modern part of New Orleans is worthy of study..
New Orleans Business District Architecture smartbusarch smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans Uptown Architecture
From the 15th floor level of the Pare Marquette, or street level, the more modern part of New Orleans is worthy of study..
New Orleans Business District Architecture smartbusarch smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans Uptown Architecture
From the 15th floor level of the Pare Marquette, or street level, the more modern part of New Orleans is worthy of study..
New Orleans Business District Architecture smartbusarch smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans Uptown Architecture
As much as New Orleans is about the people, New Orleans is also... well how about the entire region.., is also about the best food, the best drink and the best party ever! Bon Appètit (and Drink!)
New Orleans Louisiana Cajun food beer booze drink smartbonappetit smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Bon Appètit (and Drink)
New Orleans is all about the party.. everything and anything goes on Bourbon Street..
New Orleans Louisiana Bourbon Street smartquestion smartbig
From Louisiana - Questionable Behavior in the Streets
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
As much as New Orleans is about the people, New Orleans is also... well how about the entire region.., is also about the best food, the best drink and the best party ever! Bon Appètit (and Drink!)
New Orleans Louisiana Cajun food beer booze drink smartbonappetit smartbig smartfaces
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Bon Appètit (and Drink)
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
( Unframed) 'Through the window and into a New Orleans world..' - Antique Shop - Rue Royale, French Quarter, New Orleans.

Some Purple POP for Sisterhoodofthebras - Hey we got purple in the 'Big Easy' two days in a row..!

HB
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
Born to shop? New Orleans will not disappoint..!
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
(Unframed Version) Through the window and into a New Orleans world..
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig smarttop .notgold
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
Born to shop? New Orleans will not disappoint..!
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
Through the window and into a New Orleans world..
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
Through the window and into a New Orleans world..
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
(Unframed version) Through the window and into a New Orleans world..
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
Born to shop? New Orleans will not disappoint..!
New Orleans French Quarter Shopping smartshop smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, Through The Window - or Shopping, Etc!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig notgold
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
(Unframed Version) A few photo-worthy images of the Amazing Automobile, New Orleans style.. and parked right on the streets! Dodge Challenger R/T.
Car Cars New Orleans Smartcarsworth smartcarz smartbig smarttop smartfrc
From Louisiana - New Orleans - Cars Worth a Shot
Three Bucks gets you a 'Jazzy Pass' and all day on and off the Cable Cars of New Orleans.. Canal Street Line would be the backbone of the line as it connects at the Mississippi with the Riverfront Line, and intersects at St Charles Street with the St Charles Line that heads west to Carrollton passing through the Business District, Museum and Galleries, Garden District, Loyola and Tulane Universities..
New Orleans Louisiana Cable Car Cable Cars smartcablecars smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans by Cable Car
'Lunch Break...' (unframed)

Bourbon Street - Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig smarttop notgold
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
What you see on any given day (or evening) stroll through the French Quarter..
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Street Scenes SmartStreetlevel smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, From Street Level
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
(Unframed Version) Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
(unframed Version) April 19, 2012 - 'Washboard Blues..' - Rue Royale - French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana.

This fellow - (You'll see more of him & the whole troupe later) his thimble-tipped fingers a blur - was really 'after it' on his washboard & tin-can-band percussion instruments, dancing about, happily accompanying the rest of his troupe.. He's part of a continuing legacy, so I've found..

....on Google:

Warren "Baby" Dodds was one of first great drummers of Jazz and the brother of clarinetist Johnny Dodds. It has been said of him, "the nimble, thimbled fingers of Baby Dodds on the washboard produced magic". He got his start playing in parades in New Orleans, occasionly with Frankie Dusen's Eagle Band. Baby played briefly with his brother Johnny in Kid Ory's Band, but was embrassed when all the musicians walked off stage because of his poor playing. This incident only served to inspire him to become a better musican. He played in several other bands in New Orleans before joining Fate Marable's riverboat band in 1918. While working on the riverboat he played with Louis Armstrong, Johnny St. Cyr, and Pops Foster, among others. He stayed in Marable's band until King Oliver asked him to join his band in San Francisco in 1921. Dodds followed Oliver to Chicago and was the drumer in King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After the breakup of that band Dodds worked with Honore Dutrey at the Dreamland in Chicago and with several other bands in the city.

From 1927 to 1929 Baby Dodds played in his brothers' band at Kelly's Stables along with Freddie Keppard. He was the drummer on many of the classic Chicago Jazz recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Seven. Throughout the Depression, Baby played in many of the small groups lead by his brother Johnny, and then went on to play with Jimmy Noone, and with Bunk Johnson in the 1940's.

~ The Baby Dodds Story as told to Larry Gara, Louisiana State University Press, 1959

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Street Jazz! Folk! A tradition more than a hundred years old, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy will always bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the mundane - some skilled, some not - but all with personality. Talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive, or cast in bronze, New Orleans music makers are the key ingredient of celebration here. They set the mood. They are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the bars & clubs, Preservation Hall, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz & Folk rules... Their images sing.

Thanks for yesterday's opening image - 'Larger than I' comments.. Good to be back..

HB
Washboard Blues New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig smarttop notgold
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig smarttop notgold
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
The faces of New Orleans..
New Orleans Faces face Louisiana smartfaces smartbig smarttop smartlife
From Louisiana - Faces
New Orleans Jazz! Street Jazz! More than a century old New Orleans Tradition, the street performing musicians of the Big Easy continue to bring a unique sound and view to the 'Quarter.' Performed by the curious and the not so curious, talent and poverty here go hand-in-hand. Alive or cast in bronze - Musicians are a key ingredient of celebration.. and tragedy and virtually every human experience in between. Here they are the Great American South at it's best, and worst. From the streets of the city, the stern of the Natchez, to plantations in the western parishes, the sound of Jazz rules... The images speak for themselves..
New Orleans Street Jazz Street Performers Jazz Music smartjazz smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - New Orleans, All That Jazz!
The faces of New Orleans..
New Orleans Faces face smartjazz smartfaces smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - Faces
The faces of New Orleans..
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From Louisiana - Faces
The faces of New Orleans..
New Orleans Faces face smartjazz smartfaces smartbig
From Louisiana - Faces
Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig smarttop
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
Built to withstand wind, rain, earthquake and time itself, the French Quarter's buildings set several feet below the surface of the Mississippi, protected only by levy and the Grace of God.. Find here a study of their aged details..
New Orleans louisiana architecture smartarch smartbig
From Louisiana - Built to Last - The Architecture..
Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'
Just everyday life in the 'Quarter..'
New Orleans Louisiana French Quarter Life in the Quarter smartlife smartbig smarttop notgold
From Louisiana - Life in the 'Quarter'

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Louisiana - Best of the Big Easy - Overview Portfolio