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Song o' the Day-"Jambalaya Town"
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New Orleans JAZZ NHP’s Song o’ the Day:
“Jambalaya Town”
It’s been a long time coming… An entire year has passed since this date, last year! That’s right, once again it is May 11th = National Eat What You Want Day = 24 hours in which to imbibe incautiously, deny dietary “do nots” and permit disapproved palatable pleasures. It says so right there on the calendar at “#NationalEatWhatYouWantDay”. Even though this last pandemic year has kept many of us irresistibly close to our kitchen’s bounty, “#EatWhatYouWantDay”, grants us permission to indulge indiscriminately because, well, it’s “#EatWhateverYouWantDay”.
Serenading our sumptuous celebration we’re playing one of the JAZZ Park’s favorite performers, and once-upon-a-time Ranger, himself, Richard “Piano” Scott. Here he extolls one food for which New Orleans is famous: “Jambalaya”, “a Creole rice dish of West African, French (especially Provençal cuisine), and Spanish influence” (Wikipedia). Originating from the Spanish dish “Paella”, French, African, and Creole influences gave the dish a new form. “Pure comfort food filled to the brim with flavour,” says Café Delites. Zatarain’s well-seasoned opinion is that jambalaya, like New Orleans, herself, is “the result of a collision of cultures” and VeeTee.com sums it all up as “cheap, filling and full of flavour”. So, what are we waiting for…? It’ll soon turn into the 12th of May!
From: Jambalaya Town
Written by: Richard Scott Obenschain (BMI)
Performed by: Richard “Piano” Scott and his New Orleans Jazz Band featuring Alan Broome (bass), Bryan Besse (drums), Lee Floyd (banjo), Michael Fulton (trumpet), Tom Fischer (clarinet)
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