His music was a classic New Orleans fusion of blues figures, parade-band cadences, and Afro-Caribbean rhythms and melodies that he worked into dense, but light-fingered piano lines, and topped off with his merrily idiosyncratic singing, whistling and scatting
As a result, the guilt felt while smoking in a dream is both a reflection of past mistakes and a symbol of the individuals desire to make a new start
One of the only parties I had FOMO about this year was the Alexa Chung x Madewell launch dinner at the Waverly Inn in September, which had all of the trappings of a classic New York night on the town: martinis, models, a champagne tower, a Paul Sevigny DJ set, and, of course, plates of Camel Blues to smoke out in the garden
Cigarettes, in particular, symbolize sharing and intimacy in many cultures