What did Pops think of Fats and other NO R&B artists?

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Listening to Fats Domino's Imperial singles collection, I wondered what the New Orleans jazz musicians thought of him, and other New Orleans R&B artists like Professor Longhair, Smiley Lewis etc.

Were their views on this ever recorded? Anyone know?

MG

[jeffcrom]

To most New Orleans musicians, music is music; they generally don't compartmentalize music by style.

Many musicians I've heard at Preservation Hall, like Frog Joseph, Frank Fields, and Ernie Elly, played on lots of those great R & B records.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

That's what I would have thought.

MG

[Neal Pomea]

Major exception in the French music. Aks Bruce Daigrepont.