Date: September 4th, 2007

Hello all,

Rob Walker here, of the NO NOTES blog, concerning "St. James Infirmary," New Orleans, and so on.

It's been a while since I've sent one of these notes out. Of course I always do my best to keep NO NOTES interesting, lately with YouTube videos, suggestions for things to read about New Orleans, etc.

But I'm really excited about the Q&A that went up this morning. More than a year ago, somebody suggested to me that I talk to a composer named Ezra Sims, who had done some "microtone" pieces that played off of "SJI." I didn't know what that meant. But I finally got the job done, and Mr. Sims turned out to be a wonderful interview, who made an esoteric-sounding subject easy to understand -- and had a great personal story about discovering "SJI" and what it meant to some of his own music.

Here is the link. Please feel free to pass along to anyone you think might be interested. Mr. Sims was a fine fellow, and I hope people check this out.

All best,

rw

P.S.: If any of you in New Orleans know anything about the Spirit of New Orleans Brass Band, please let me know. Thanks!