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The Magnificent Seven at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on Sunday, April 29, 2018. Photo by Noé Cugny.

Magnificent Seven Ride into the Sunset

October 29, 2020 by: John Swenson

An all-star band plays its last (?) gig on a superb live recording

New Orleans has had a long history of one-off bands that coalesce and dissolve like a fabulous tale from 1001 Arabian Nights. Magnificent Seven is such a group, a gathering that took place based on a fan’s whimsy and lasted for five gigs before vanishing like a puff of smoke from a genie’s lamp. 

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