... But as to the matter of dispersing gloom and spreading glee, evidence in favor of the sorcery of Madam Marie Laveau, also known as the Widow Paris, the most notorious New Orleans voodoo queen, and the mojo hands of Doctor Jim Alexander, ne' Charles La Fountain, also known as Indian Jim, her male counterpart, is questionable to say the very least.
Testimony that the dance-beat incantation and percussion of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong almost always worked as advertised is universal.
Albert Murray, "Stomping the blues"
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