Traditional New Orleans jazz is a culture of its own, and the players in this remarkable volume are its native speakers.
In Walking with Legends, he honors the legacies of the African American musicians who taught and inspired him and affirms the importance of the human relationships that make the music possible.
Members of the combo, all pictured in mug shot, were Mays, a former sideman in Al Donahue's dance band, piano; Ralph (Red) Clemson, trumpet; Jimmy James, tenor sax; Gil Stancourt, trombone; Frank Marcy, bass; and Larry Callahan, drums.
"Music is the memory of New Orleans. For all of the corruption, poverty and violence, the music is elemental, a gorgeous collective chorus to the best instincts of the human...
This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications.
Traditional New Orleans jazz is a culture of its own, and the players in this remarkable volume are its native speakers.
A Year By Year History of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with all the listings of who played when, where and what time each year.
This volume contains rare photographs from the Louisiana State Museum's Jazz Collection, lovingly assembled and accompanied by captions written by award-winning author and Jazz Roots radio show host Tom Morgan.
Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans.
" Thomas W. Jacobsen's The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 chronicles the resurgence of jazz music in the Crescent City in the years following Suhor's prophetic claim.