Commentary: What Others Say

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'Saints are marching out,' National Post (Toronto), Dec. 7

"The whole relief effort has been one long comedy of errors, and the music scene here is a delicate ecosystem," says Ben Jaffe, director of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, its tuba player and a leader of the grassroots movement to rescue New Orleans jazz from the municipal ruins.

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Commentary: What Others Say

Jaffe stayed in town for Hurricane Katrina.

"I made preparations," he explains. "I had a boat, a generator, six weeks' worth of food and water. We were all afraid the Mississippi levee would break. If it did, really, I wouldn't have cared if I died t...

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