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Sports Jacket: Turbaned Drummer and Photography Studio

sports jacket: Photo Shannon Brinkman This converted photography studio, adorned with paintings of legendary black musicians, is sometimes dubbed the world's most famous jazz venue, according to Vancouver Courier. The All-Stars band features a turbaned drummer who executes with cool precision and a saxophonist in a professorial sports jacket who shakes his head wistfully when he's not playing. Virtuoso jazz musicians grace Preservation Hall in New Orleans. It just embodies coolness.article continues below Trending Stories Vancouver could move towards banning conversion therapy Metro Vancouver housing prices to rise in 2018 Online fundraiser launched for victim in Burrard bridge crash One dead in Burrard bridge crash However, when 85-year-old clarinetist Charlie Gabriel performs a virtuosic solo, my joy peaks. New Orleans celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2018, and I'm in Louisiana's largest and most diverse city to fight my obsessive need to associate everything with 1980's pop music. Why Because it unmistakably reminds me of the clarinet on Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now on Van Halen's 1982 album Diver Down. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.