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June 24, 2011June 24, 2011Music

Donald Harrison: The Mardi Gras Indians Meet Modern Jazz

by Ted Panken

If you’re a fan of Treme, the acclaimed HBO series about the New Orleans neighborhood on which Congo Square was sited, you may recall the characters Delmond Trumbeaux, a trumpeter (played by Rob Brown), and his father, Albert Lambreaux, a plasterer who doubles as a Big Chief of the Mardi Gras Indian group, the Guardians...

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