hen we learn a song, we play it from .” At the word “here,” Charlie Gabriel motions to his heart. It is a Tuesday afternoon in early April and Gabriel, the octogenarian saxophonist for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, is explaining over Zoom how musicians from New Orleans learn music, learn to truly inhabit the music and let the music inhabit them. “What the most important thing is … If you don’t know the melody of the song, really know it, then you don’t know
