[Leica] IMG: New Orleans comes to Alicante

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

A pretty traditional Dixieland set up, with banjo/trumpet/clarinet on top
of the rhythm section. Nice!

Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Jul 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> My co-worker of 11 years, Carolina, has a partner, Carlos Childe, who is a
> professional jazz musician. He is passionate about traditional New Orleans
> jazz, and he and Carolina have made several trips to New Orleans,
> interviewing some of the greats for Carlos’s Youtube channel. One of those
> greats is Will Smith <https://www.preservationhall.com/people/will-smith/>,
> member of the Preservation Hall. Right now, Will Smith is in Spain, touring
> together with Carlos. They have played all over the country, and on Friday
> they performed in the municipality of San Juan de Alicante, a suburb next
> to the one in which I live, in an outdoor venue just 3 km from my house. It
> was a free concert, part of a jazz festival put on by the municipality. Of
> course I went, and I must say that even though traditional N.O. jazz is not
> my favourite jazz genre, I enjoyed it very much. Some of of my co-workers
> also went—Carolina has many friends in the office—and all had a good time.
> I took pictures, obviously, here are 37 of them:
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> https://www.greatpix.eu/Will-Smiths-New-Orleans-Jazz-Cats-Featuring-Carlos-Childe
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> You may notice there were quite a few senior citizens in the audience. The
> explanation is very simple: next to the square where the concert was held
> there is a nursing home, and many of the residents were in attendance,
> often accompanied by their middle-aged children.
>
> As always, comments and critique are welcome and appreciated. I think it
> is fairly obvious who Will Smith is; Carlos is the guy with the curly hair
> and the banjo.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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