A trumpet around the corner : the story of New Orleans jazz / Samuel Charters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charters, Samuel, 1929-2015.

Series:

American made music series.

American made music series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jazz--Louisiana--New Orleans--History and criticism.

Jazz.

Jazz musicians--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Jazz musicians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages--African American, white, and Creole--in jazz's formative years. Charters also maps the inroads blazed by the city's Italian immigrant musicians, who left thei

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; COUNTING OFF THE BEAT: AN INTRODUCTION; 1. A CITY LIKE NO OTHER; 2. PEOPLE, FACES; 3. A SOCIETY TO ITSELF; 4. PAPA JACK'S BOYS; 5. THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN; 6. ON THE CIRCUIT; 7. "JASS"; 8. THE FIRST SENSATIONAL MUSICAL NOVELTY OF 1917!; 9. SOME RECORD!; 10. SOUTHERN STOMPS; 11. RHYTHM KINGS; 12. MISTER JELLY; 13. BOUNCING AROUND; 14. OUT TO THE HALFWAY HOUSE; 15. KINGS OF NEW ORLEANS; 16. THE TIGER'S PAW; 17. THE PRODIGAL; 18. JAZZ NIGHTS; 19. GLORIES, REMEMBERED; 20. REVIVAL DAYS; 21. STRUTTIN'; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 370-371) and index.

ISBN:

1-4968-5137-4

1-62103-810-6

1-282-48568-7

9786612485688

1-60473-318-7

OCLC:

317401549