re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

“Do you like jazz? I’m a big fan of the Commodores!” was something I really heard once.

I have to walk back my Connick comment a bit, because looking at their schedule (Jazz Fest just ended yesterday), I see a whole lot of jazz and R&B artists in the schedule (many of them local acts you wouldn’t have ever known about unless you’re a either a NO/LA native or a total jazzhead), along with just as many acts from other genres (mostly pop and rock, but some rap/hip-hop and others, too). For seven full days of music over two weekends in several venues, it was a helluva roster:

nojazzfest.com

The place was not for want for jazz at all from what I see, but there was something for everyone, it seems.