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New Orleans is known to most people as the birthplace of jazz. But as pop music took over the rest of the world, the New Orleans street bands were still doing their thing. They evolved too, influenced by ground breaking funk artists such as James Brown and Parliament. Bands took the music of the street into the Bourbon Street clubs. This down-to-earth back-to-basics brass driven funk spawned a whole new generation of bands and musicians, such as Trombone Shorty, the Youngblood Brass Band and the FUNK BUDDIES.