Up From the Streets – New Orleans: The City of Music

“The street has the beat,” says drummer Herlin Riley. According to Wynton Marsalis, the freedom drums of Africa echoed back to New Orleans as jazz. Keith Richards, Sting and Bonnie Raitt rave about what they learned there, Big Freedia talks about the rap style of the “bounce capital of the world.” In Michael Murphy’s documentary, which is peppered with great music, trumpeter Terence Blanchard parades as narrator through a city whose rhythms are Spanish, French, Creole and above all danceable.