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**** Dr. Michael White, “Crescent City Serenade,” Antilles. Clarinetist White, 35, is among a new generation of musicians from New Orleans trying to preserve the authenticity of traditional jazz. Featuring such contemporaries as Wynton Marsalis plus a few veterans, White’s major-label debut showcases his wide-as-the-Mississippi vibrato, fat, woody tone and melodically rich soloing. Truly an ensemble effort, it’s an exuberant testament to the enduring vitality of the rough-and-rowdy music that predated swing, bop and all the rest.