"Didn't it rain, children/didn't it rain" -- Mahalia Jackson
The storm that swamped last month's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival forced cancellations by Stevie Wonder, Beck and other luminaries. But Grammy-winning producer, A&R man, news veteran, journalism professor and now documentary filmmaker Leo Sacks was just where he wanted to be as he joyfully sloshed through the Fairgounds Race Track to find solace in the Gospel Tent -- the place where, more than three decades earlier, the self-described Hebrew School dropout was swept away by a musical/spiritual tsunami named Raymond Myles.
In May 1982, Leo, on assignment for Billboard, hunkered down in the Gospel Tent at his first Jazzfest, sipped strawberry lemonade and discovered what people in New Orleans already knew: that a native son from the Seventh Ward, born in the cradle of the church and anointed as a child prodigy by Mahalia Jackson when he was five years old, was destined for greatness.
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