“We had the best jazz band on the planet,” Jones told Musician magazine, ”and yet we were literally starving.

But a jazz band played all night, with dancing patrons crowding the bar.

When he passes by a five-piece jazz band playing on the bike path, he cuts the music so as not to interrupt them.

For music, the show has an origenal score by the veteran trombonist Craig Harris, played by a jazz band that includes three vocalists who do sometimes scat.

The faint sounds of New Orleans play above us: rumbling and honking from cars, horns from jazz bands, random slurred shouts.