Bourbon Street Blues and the Green Wave

Book excerpt: The setting is 1946 post World War II New Orleans. Tennessee Williams Street Car Named Desire moves up St. Charles Avenue. The Ole' Green River goes lap lap. Bunk Johnson's Dixieland Jazz band pulsates at the Famous Door on Bourbon Street. One might get a glimpse of Marie singin', struttin', and shakin' to Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. That is all it took for Texas bred Green Wave basketballer and trumpeter to fall madly in love. Zach loved Marie, basketball, and New Orleans Jazz - a music that drifts like leaves on the surface of the mind, and then sinks deep into the soul. This love adventure is as sweet as Marie's sugar coated lips. Join Zach and Marie in the ambience of cool mist and mellow fruitfulness of a fog shrouded New Orleans night. In the distance we hear the Bourbon Street Blues.