Talking New Orleans Music

Author : Burt Feintuch
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781496803665

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Talking New Orleans Music by Burt Feintuch Pdf

In New Orleans, music screams. It honks. It blats. It wails. It purrs. It messes with time. It messes with pitch. It messes with your feet. It messes with your head. One musician leads to another; traditions overlap, intertwine, nourish each other; and everyone seems to know everyone else. From traditional jazz through rhythm and blues and rock 'n' roll to sissy bounce, in second-line parades, from the streets to clubs and festivals, the music seems unending. In Talking New Orleans Music, author Burt Feintuch has pursued a decades-long fascination with the music of this singular city. Thinking about the devastation--not only material but also cultural--caused by the levees breaking in 2005, he began a series of conversations with master New Orleans musicians, talking about their lives, the cultural contexts of their music, their experiences during and after Katrina, and their city. Photographer Gary Samson joined him, adding a compelling visual dimension to the book. Here you will find intimate and revealing interviews with eleven of the city's most celebrated musicians and culture-bearers--Soul Queen Irma Thomas, Walter "Wolfman" Washington, Charmaine Neville, John Boutté, Dr. Michael White, Deacon John Moore, Cajun bandleader Bruce Daigrepont, Zion Harmonizer Brazella Briscoe, producer Scott Billington, as well as Christie Jourdain and Janine Waters of the Original Pinettes, New Orleans's only all-woman brass band. Feintuch's interviews and Samson's sixty-five color photographs create a powerful portrait of an American place like no other and its worlds of music.

Author : Bruce Sunpie Barnes,Rachel Breunlin
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1608011070

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Talk That Music Talk by Bruce Sunpie Barnes,Rachel Breunlin Pdf

Learning to play by ear is a unique part of becoming a musician in New Orleans. This life history and photography project explores the traditional methods of teaching brass band music in the city that gave birth to jazz. Through in-depth interviews, the bands, social and pleasure clubs, schools, churches, and other neighborhood institutions that have supported the music, and the spirit embodied in it, come to life.

Author : Nat Shapiro,Nat Hentoff
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486171364

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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya by Nat Shapiro,Nat Hentoff Pdf

In this marvelous oral history, the words of such legends as Louis Armstrong, Fats Waller, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, and Billy Holiday trace the birth, growth, and changes in jazz over the years.

Author : Lewis Watts,Eric Porter
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520955325

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New Orleans Suite by Lewis Watts,Eric Porter Pdf

With New Orleans Suite, Eric Porter and Lewis Watts join the post-Katrina conversation about New Orleans and its changing cultural scene. Using both visual evidence and the written word, Watts and Porter pay homage to the city, its region, and its residents, by mapping recent and often contradictory social and cultural transformations, and seeking to counter inadequate and often pejorative accounts of the people and place that give New Orleans its soul. Focusing for the most part on the city’s African American community, New Orleans Suite is a story about people: how bad things have happened to them in the long and short run, how they have persevered by drawing upon and transforming their cultural practices, and what they can teach us about citizenship, politics, and society.

Author : Harold Battiste,Karen Celestan
Publisher : Louisiana Artists Biography
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0917860551

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Unfinished Blues-- by Harold Battiste,Karen Celestan Pdf

"Arrangements and productions": p. 177-179.

Author : Thomas W. Jacobsen
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780807139462

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Traditional New Orleans Jazz by Thomas W. Jacobsen Pdf

About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. The enduring sound and boundless energy of this American art form have produced a long list of jazz legends. From Lionel Ferbos -- the city's oldest working jazz musician -- to Grammy winner Irvin Mayfield, the musical heritage of traditional jazz lives on through each player's passion. In Traditional New Orleans Jazz, veteran jazz journalist Thomas Jacobsen discusses that legacy with Ferbos, Mayfield, and a who's who of the present-day scene's "trad jazz" players. Through intimate conversations with jazz veterans and up-and-coming talent, Jacobsen elicits honest, witty, and sometimes comedic discussions that reveal a strong mutual devotion to do one thing -- compose and play music inspired by the Crescent City's earliest jazz musicians. Traditional New Orleans Jazz presents local perspectives on what has become an international language with interviews from Lucien Barbarin, Evan Christopher, Duke Heitger, Leroy Jones, Dr. Michael White, and many more. Jacobsen also notes the stewardship of traditional jazz means more than making music. Its longevity relies on teaching and innovation, furthering the inextricable ties between the music and the men who make it. Traditional New Orleans jazz is a culture of its own, and the players in this remarkable volume are its native speakers.

Author : American Federation of Musicians
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1116 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Musicians
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054289040

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Proceedings of the ... Convention of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States by American Federation of Musicians Pdf

Author : Max Jones
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306809486

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Jazz Talking by Max Jones Pdf

Max Jones, known affectionately as "the Boswell of bebop" (Time Out), was famed in England for nearly four decades of insightful, ardent writing on jazz. With this luminous collection of interviews, his work will at last be widely accessible to American readers. Here are the voices of jazz—Coleman Hawkins, Johnny Hodges, Billie Holiday, and Mary Lou Williams, to name but a few—in conversation with Jones, who could turn a casual chat into an indelible portrait and who gives American readers a view of these musicians they have never had before.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101078729835

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Music Trades by Anonim Pdf

Author : Max Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UVA:X001354513

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Talking Jazz by Max Jones Pdf

Herinneringen van de Britse jazzcriticus aan ontmoetingen met musici.

Author : Robert S. Gold
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1982-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015023770483

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Jazz Talk by Robert S. Gold Pdf

Author : Monique Verdin
Publisher : University of New Orleans Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1608011259

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Return to Yakni Chitto by Monique Verdin Pdf

In South Louisiana, we live on a power point of our planet. A place where water comes to be purified. A place where 1,000-year-old cypress trees once grew. A place where fish still come to spawn and birds to nest. A place close to the Gulf of Mexico but where, as the old people used to say, "sweet water" could still be found that was fresh and good to drink. There is no sweet water down the bayou in Terrebonne Parish anymore. I've been trying to make sense of the strange beauty left here—the magic that is entangled in the ugliest underbelly of a plantation economy surrendered to the petro-chemical industry. Against this landscape, I see my Houma cousins coming back to Pointeaux-Chenes on the weekends and my jardin sauvage on Bayou Road. I see indigenous and métis people reclaiming New Orleans' original name, Bulbancha. I remind myself of my grandmother's story of her aunt who still crossed the Mississippi River every day in a pirogue. I see connections of unexpected, non-coincidental, life-affirming experiences that fuse the stories of our ancestors with our hopes and prayers for a better future.

Author : Ben Sidran
Publisher : Pomegranate Communications
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004281130

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Talking Jazz by Ben Sidran Pdf

A suite of interviews held between 1985 to 1990 of 40 jazz musicians who shaped the current state of art of American jazz including: - Miles Davis, Gil Evans, Dizzy Gillespie, Jay McShann, Red Rodney, Frank Morgan, John Hendricks, Max Roach, Willie Ruff, Art Blakey, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean, Horace Silver, Abdullah Ibrahim, Sonny Rollins, Phil Woods, Johnny Griffin, Pepper Adams, Michel Petrucciani, McCoy Tyner, Max Gordon, Archie Shepp, Herbie Hancock, Tony Williams, Keith Jarrett, Branford Marsalis, Rudy Van Gelder, George Benson, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Brown, Joe Sample, Jack DeJohnette, Denny Zeitland, Don Cherry, Carla Bley, Steve Gadd, Donald Fagan, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Grusin, Bob James.

Author : Pops Coffee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973270838

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Tuba Skinny and Shaye Cohn by Pops Coffee Pdf

Now updated to 2020, this is an account of the development and output of the great young traditional jazz band Tuba Skinny, which is based in New Orleans. Many recommendations are included of videos to watch and recordings available for purchase.

Author : John Swenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199779589

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New Atlantis by John Swenson Pdf

At its most intimate level, music heals our emotional wounds and inspires us. At its most public, it unites people across cultural boundaries. But can it rebuild a city? That's the central question posed in New Atlantis, journalist John Swenson's beautifully detailed account of the musical artists working to save America's most colorful and troubled metropolis: New Orleans. The city has been threatened with extinction many times during its three-hundred-plus-year history by fire, pestilence, crime, flood, and oil spills. Working for little money and in spite of having lost their own homes and possessions to Katrina, New Orleans's most gifted musicians--including such figures as Dr. John, the Neville Brothers, "Trombone Shorty," and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux--are fighting back against a tidal wave of problems: the depletion of the wetlands south of the city (which are disappearing at the rate of one acre every hour), the violence that has made New Orleans the murder capitol of the U.S., the waning tourism industry, and above all the continuing calamity in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (or, as it is known in New Orleans, the "Federal Flood"). Indeed, most of the neighborhoods that nurtured the indigenous music of New Orleans were destroyed in the flood, and many of the elder statesmen have died or been incapacitated since then, but the musicians profiled here have stepped up to fill their roles. New Atlantis is their story. Packed with indelible portraits of individual artists, informed by Swenson's encyclopedic knowledge of the city's unique and varied music scene--which includes jazz, R&B, brass band, rock, and hip hop--New Atlantis is a stirring chronicle of the valiant efforts to preserve the culture that gives New Orleans its grace and magic.