New Orleans
Playing a Jazz Chorus
Samuel Charters [+–]
Samuel Charters is a novelist, poet and eminent historian of jazz and the blues. His books include The Roots of the Blues: An African Search, Jelly Roll Morton’s Last Night at the Jungle Inn, The Legacy of the Blues: The Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen, New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus, The Day is so Long and the Wages so Small: Music on a Summer Island and the novel Louisiana Black.
This book is a highly personal portrait of New Orleans and its music today – 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 and groups at the heart of the New Orleans jazz scene who make their appearance 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 the gospel musician Billy Edwards. The book also presents portraits of every day New Orleans people confronting a challenging situation.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
