Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it’s as if th…

- Tom Piazza

At one point, early on, some public figures even asked whether it 'made sense' to rebuild New Orleans. Would you let your own mother die because it d…

- Tom Piazza

The past in New Orleans cohabits with the present to an extent not even approximated in any other North American city.

- Tom Piazza

A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panora…

- Tom Piazza

New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

- Tom Piazza

Go with what is. Use what happens.

- Tom Piazza

In New Orleans the funerals remind us that Life is bigger than any individual life, and it will roll on, and for the short time that your individual …

- Tom Piazza