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Jazz MusicNOV · 081983
James Carroll Booker Dies

James Carroll Booker III, known as the Piano Prince, was an extremely talented jazz, New Orleans rhythm and blues and soul musician, died on November 8, 1983 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the age of 43...

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“Fais do-do” — the name for a Cajun and Creole dance party — comes from the French for “go to sleep,” what parents told the children while the grown-ups danced.

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