I’ve often heard it said that rather than being an American city, New Orleans is closer in nature to a port of the Caribbean.

Its proximity to the Gulf and its enviable position on the Mississippi made New Orleans a bustling port city crawling with people from all over the globe. Particularly, the influence of New Orleans’ Latin community has shaped the city immensely. One could argue that many of the music forms that New Orleans claims to have had a hand in creating, did so with a large h...