At midnight on Friday, Frenchmen Street was bustling. From the black velvet rope of the Hookah Cafe to the Latin dancers at Ray's Boom Boom Room to the crowded sidewalk outside the Spotted Cat, ...

When it’s really going on, people are dancing out of their heads, maybe even out of their bodies. The bass drum rumbles like thunder on the mountain; snare drums snap your hips into twitching spasms; ...

...we can see the reanimated spirit of those early proto-jazz musicians in New Orleans echoing through the culture, hundreds of millions of people entirely unaware that they were dancing and listening ...