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	Podcast:		Jazz Fest Minutes
	Episode:		Jazz Fest Minutes: C.J. Chenier Keeps It Red Hot
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2013-04-09 08:00:00
	Description:		C.J. Chenier is the son of Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier . "I didn't know to what magnitude my dad's popularity was, but I knew he played music and because he played music I wanted to play music," Chenier said. C.J. took a few piano lessons, messed around with guitar a little bit, and by the fourth grade was ready to try a horn. "The only instrument I knew about was a trombone because I saw this movie 76 Trombones ," he said. "So that's really the only instrument I knew about. And I told my mom, I said I want to play the trombone, and she's like, no, you've got to play saxophone because your daddy's got a saxophone in his band. And I didn't know what a saxophone was." It turned out to be a very good choice. "My mom must have had a foresight, because me and the saxophone became one real quick, you know, it was like I adapted to it real fast." C.J. wanted to play music full time, but couldn't make a living doing that in his hometown of Port Arthur, Texas. So, after finishing high school,
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