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New Orleans : playing a jazz chorus / by Samuel Charters ; with photographs by the author.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3508.8.N48 C43 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--2001-2010--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Jazz musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Jazz musicians.
- New Orleans (La.)--History--21st century.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
- Louisiana--New Orleans.
- Physical Description:
- 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Marion Boyars, 2006.
- Summary:
- This book is a deeply personal portrait of the people and music of today's New Orleans-a city that has been hard hit by Katrina, but is managing to keep its great jazz tradition, brass band scene, incomparable food, and unique lifestyle vital and intact.
- Among the musicians appearing in this book are: the Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8, the Soul Rebels, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Johnny Vidacovich, Barry Martyn, Lars Edegran, Chuck Badie, Pete Fountain, Michael White, the Hot Club of New Orleans, Coco Robicheaux, record company owner George Buck, and gospel musician Billy Edwards.
- The book also presents portraits of everyday New Orleans people confronting a challenging situation.
- Contents:
- Storm warnings
- A city in darkness
- Jazz friends
- Bitter fruit
- Preservation blues
- Music through the door
- Street beat
- Tradition can be a verb
- God's work, man's work
- Laughing in the mall.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Suggested recordings: pages 217-227.
- ISBN:
- 0714531316
- OCLC:
- 70673318
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