Jazz In New Orleans

Author : Charles B. Hersch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226328690

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Subversive Sounds by Charles B. Hersch Pdf

Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune

Author : Jason Berry,Jonathan Foose,Tad Jones
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015084141392

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Up from the Cradle of Jazz by Jason Berry,Jonathan Foose,Tad Jones Pdf

Up from the Cradle of Jazz is the inside story of New Orleans music from the rise of rhythm and blues through the post-Hurricane Katrina resurrection.

Author : Herlin Riley,Johnny Vidacovich
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drum
ISBN : 0897249216

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New Orleans Jazz and Second Line Drumming by Herlin Riley,Johnny Vidacovich Pdf

This book is based on performances and transcriptions from the DCI music videos Herlin Riley: Ragtime & beyond, and Johnny Vidacovich: Street beats modern applications. Additional interviews and essays on: Baby Dodds, Vernel Fournier, Ed Blackwell, James Black and Freddie Kohlman, Smokey Johnson, David Lee, and bassist Bill Huntington.

Author : Jan Clifford,Leslie Blackshear Smith
Publisher : E Prime
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0976615401

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The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival by Jan Clifford,Leslie Blackshear Smith Pdf

SUPERANNO The first full history of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, with over 400 photographs, many in full color. Includes quotes from musicians with a listing of bands and the times and stages on which they performed. The colorful history of WWOZ-radio, chapters on the bountiful food and crafts heritage, and how the posters, and T-shirt

Author : Danny Barker,Alyn Shipton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781349099368

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A Life in Jazz by Danny Barker,Alyn Shipton Pdf

As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children's 'spasm' bands of the seventh ward of New Orleans, through the experience of brass bands and jazz funerals involving his grandfather, Isidore Barbarin, to his early days on the road with the blues singer Little Brother Montgomery. Later he goes on to discuss New York, and the jazz scene he found there in 1930. His work with Jelly Roll Morton, as well as the lesser-known bands of Fess Williams and Albert Nicholas, is covered before a full account of his years with Millinder, Benny Carter and Calloway, including a description of Dizzy Gillespie's impact on jazz, is given. The final chapters discuss Barker's career from the late 1940s. Starting with the New York dixieland scene at Ryan's and Condon's he talks of his work with Wilbur de Paris, James P. Johnson and This is Jazz, before discussing his return to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Museum. A collection of Barker's photographs,

Author : Richard Brent Turner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253025128

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Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans by Richard Brent Turner Pdf

This scholarly study demonstrates “that while post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is changing, the vibrant traditions of jazz . . . must continue” (Journal of African American History). An examination of the musical, religious, and political landscape of black New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina, this revised edition looks at how these factors play out in a new millennium of global apartheid. Richard Brent Turner explores the history and contemporary significance of second lines—the group of dancers who follow the first procession of church and club members, brass bands, and grand marshals in black New Orleans’s jazz street parades. Here music and religion interplay, and Turner’s study reveals how these identities and traditions from Haiti and West and Central Africa are reinterpreted. He also describes how second line participants create their own social space and become proficient in the arts of political disguise, resistance, and performance.

Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604733181

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A Trumpet Around the Corner by Samuel Charters Pdf

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 their own imprint on the emerging styles. The study is based on the author's own interviews, begun in the 1950s, on the extensive material gathered by the Oral History Project in New Orleans, on the recent scholarship of a new generation of writers, and on an exhaustive examination of related newspaper files from the jazz era. The book extends the study area of his earlier book Jazz: New Orleans, 1885-1957, and breaks new ground with its in-depth discussion of the earliest New Orleans recordings. A Trumpet around the Corner for the first time brings the story up to the present, describing the worldwide interest in the New Orleans jazz revival of the 1950s and 1960s, and the exciting resurgence of the brass bands of the last decades. The book discusses the renewed concern over New Orleans's musical heritage, which is at great risk after the catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters. Samuel Charters, eminent historian of jazz and blues music, is author of the award-winning The Roots of the Blues and numerous other titles. A resident of Storrs, Connecticut, and Stockholm, Sweden, he is also a Grammy-winning record producer, musician, poet, and fiction writer and was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1994.

Author : Thomas Lesher Morgan
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 1596525452

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Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz by Thomas Lesher Morgan Pdf

New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played by real jazz musicians. The sixties brought Preservation Hall, a musical institution that even a hurricane couldn't kill. For the last 40 years, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been celebrating New Orleans' and Louisiana's unique culture and music. 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. Those who love jazz will be amazed by these pictures of some of the best musicians ever to pick up an instrument. For those just beginning to learn about jazz, this 200-page volume is an excellent takeoff point to learn more about what made New Orleans jazz unique, and a source to discover musicians who can further enhance readers' listening pleasure.

Author : Thomas W. Jacobsen
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780807157008

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The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970–2000 by Thomas W. Jacobsen Pdf

In 1966, journalist Charles Suhor wrote that New Orleans jazz was "ready for its new Golden Age." 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. Jacobsen, a New Orleans resident and longtime jazz aficionado, offers a wide-ranging history of the New Orleans jazz renaissance in the last three decades of the twentieth century, weaving local musical developments into the larger context of the national jazz scene. Jacobsen vividly evokes the changing face of the New Orleans jazz world at the close of the twentieth century. Drawing from an array of personal experiences and his own exhaustive research, he discusses leading musicians and bands, both traditionalists and modernists, as well as major performance venues and festivals. The city's musical infrastructure does not go overlooked, as Jacobsen delves into New Orleans's music business, its jazz media, and the evolution of jazz edu-cation at public schools and universities. With a trove of more than seventy photographs of key players and performances, The New Orleans Jazz Scene, 1970-2000 offers a vibrant and fascinating portrait of the musical genre that defines New Orleans.

Author : Charles Suhor
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461660026

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Jazz in New Orleans by Charles Suhor Pdf

Jazz in New Orleans provides accurate information about, and an insightful interpretation of, jazz in New Orleans from the end of World War II through 1970.

Author : Thomas Brothers,Thomas David Brothers
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393330014

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Louis Armstrong's New Orleans by Thomas Brothers,Thomas David Brothers Pdf

A rags-to-riches narrative of the eminent jazz artist's early life describes how his childhood was marked by such challenges as poverty, Jim Crow legislation, and vigilante terrorism but how his musical prowess was shaped by the culturally rich African-American traditions of New Orleans. Reprint.

Author : Gary Krist
Publisher : Crown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780770437077

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Empire of Sin by Gary Krist Pdf

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans’ other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz culture, and endemic crime defined the battlegrounds of the Crescent City Empire of Sin re-creates the remarkable story of New Orleans’ thirty-years war against itself, pitting the city’s elite “better half” against its powerful and long-entrenched underworld of vice, perversity, and crime. This early-20th-century battle centers on one man: Tom Anderson, the undisputed czar of the city's Storyville vice district, who fights desperately to keep his empire intact as it faces onslaughts from all sides. Surrounding him are the stories of flamboyant prostitutes, crusading moral reformers, dissolute jazzmen, ruthless Mafiosi, venal politicians, and one extremely violent serial killer, all battling for primacy in a wild and wicked city unlike any other in the world.

Author : Jim Thornton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Trumpet music (Jazz)
ISBN : 0997661712

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New Orleans Trumpet by Jim Thornton Pdf

Author : Jack Sullivan
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496815279

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New Orleans Remix by Jack Sullivan Pdf

Since the 1990s, New Orleans has been experiencing its greatest musical renaissance since Louis Armstrong. Brass band, funk, hip hop, Mardi Gras Indian, zydeco, and other styles are rocking the city in new neighborhood bars far from the Bourbon Street tourist scene. Even "neotraditional" jazz players have emerged in startling numbers, making the old sound new for a younger generation. In this book, Jack Sullivan shines the light on superb artists little known to the general public--Leroy Jones, Shamarr Allen, Kermit Ruffins, Topsy Chapman, Aurora Nealand, the Brass-A-Holics. He introduces as well a surge of female, Asian, and other previously marginalized groups that are making the vibe more inclusive than ever. New Orleans Remix covers artists who have broken into the national spotlight--the Rebirth Brass Band, Trombone Shorty, Jon Batiste--and many creators who are still little known. Based on dozens of interviews and archival documents, this book delivers their perspectives on how they view their present in relation to a vital past. The city of New Orleans has always held fiercely to the old even as it invented the new, a secret of its dynamic success. Marching tunes mingled with jazz, traditional jazz with bebop, Mardi Gras Indian percussion with funk, all producing wonderfully bewildering yet viable fusions. This book identifies the unique catalytic power of the city itself. Why did New Orleans spawn America's greatest vernacular music, and why does its musical fire still burn so fiercely, long after the great jazz eruptions in Chicago, Kansas City, and others declined? How does a tradition remain intensely creative for generations? How has the huge influx of immigrants to New Orleans, especially since Hurricane Katrina, contributed to the city's current musical harmony? This book seeks answers through the ideas of working musicians who represent very different sensibilities in voices often as eloquent as their music.

Author : Bruce Boyd Raeburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 0472116754

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New Orleans Style and the Writing of American Jazz History by Bruce Boyd Raeburn Pdf

A fascinating and insightful study of the development of New Orleans jazz and its effect on jazz history