Marsalis 'never left' New Orleans From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: February 17, 2006| Author: | Copyright 2006 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

YOKOHAMA, Japan -- Wynton Marsalis was halfway through an explanation of whether he thinks his hometown, New Orleans, will ever really come back from the devastation of last summer's Hurricane Katrina when he stopped and shifted direction. He got stranded in Chicago, he said, on his way over to Japan for a week of workshops for kids. With nowhere in particular to go, he just naturally hooked up with another New Orleans native living there.

He was given a place to stay, then treated to New Orleans food. The conversation was all about New Orleans. He found out his host, an activist in the ...

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