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New orleans, a vibrant metropolis of night life, swing, salsa and the blues...

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Many shades of blues ... azure, prussian, navy, baby blue, cyan, aqua and the 12 bar blues.
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Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Mahalia Jackson...

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A city known for it's vibrant jazz scene and the Mississipi river, with it's ebbs and ows...

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It's contours and shades of blue...azure, cyan and magenta...that's the Big Easy folks.
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The soft, chill ow of the city's jazz scene: trumpeter's saxophonists and pianists from a

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