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:: George Porter, Jr. :: :: Cervante’s Other Side :: January 20 and 21 :: By Brian Turk In the mid-1960s, New Orleans musicians blended R&B, soul and jazz into a new form of music. These pioneers wanted to create something that was more danceable, rhythmic and syncopated; so they started encouraging each other to…