I took this picture of the Al Hirt Club, in New Orleans, Bourbon Street, I think, in January 1965, when I was there with the Navy. Later that evening I walked by the club again and it was packed and music with a Dixieland beat banging away. I stood outside and listened for a while and made a mental note to buy an Al hirt album, which I ended up buying two and still enjoy listening to them. I remember reading one time that during the Madi Gras parade somebody in the crowd threw a whiskey bottle at him and it busted his lips, which, put him out of commission for a while, I suppose - a horn player needs his lips in good condition. According to Wikicpedia, Al died in 1999.
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