Allison Miner, a major contributor to New Orleans music for over 25 years, passed away Saturday, December 23, 1995, after battling multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer. There are only a few people who know as many different "aspects of the city called New Orleans as did Allison. I often ran into her at the second-line parades, funerals, and funky-butt little clubs where any brass band might be playing. She would follow a band for hours, go out at night and listen to groups in the clubs and...