Cafe Negril, Frenchmen St, New Orleans, USA, 6th November 2014 (am).

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Early in the morning, i.e. after midnight, after seeing Troy Turner, Ed Wills and Jeff Chaz, I dropped into Cafe Negril where Another Day in Paradise was playing.

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Band members include Dominick Grillo, Ian Smith, Mike Kobrin, Travis Blotsky, Eugene Harding, Thomas McDonald, Mike Hood, Ed Barrett and Blac Sol.

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They describe their musical range as Blues, Funk, New Orleans R&B, Rhythm and Blues and Jazz.  While I was there it seemed to be New Orleans big brass band jazz, and raging.  Here’s a video by Rodney Dill that he has supplied in the comments.

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The house was packed and the lighting was very low.

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The images appear bright, brighter no doubt than it seemed at the time but hopefully they convey the vibrancy of the occasion.

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I don’t think I will win any photographic prizes with these images because I was pushing the furthest limits of the camera’s capacity.

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Consequently, though they will still look OK if you click on them to see them larger, there is not a lot of detail and the tonal range is limited.

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However, just as with the music, the feel is everything.  I hope these images will give you something of the feel of what it was like.

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