A Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans JazzSamuel 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
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2 PEOPLE FACES | 23 |
3 A SOCIETY TO ITSELF | 43 |
4 PAPA JACKS BOYS | 64 |
5 THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN | 79 |
6 ON THE CIRCUIT | 97 |
7 JASS | 111 |
13 BOUNCING AROUND | 220 |
14 OUT TO THE HALFWAY HOUSE | 238 |
15 KINGS OF NEW ORLEANS | 258 |
16 THE TIGERS PAW | 273 |
17 THE PRODIGAL | 287 |
18 JAZZ NIGHTS | 299 |
19 GLORIES REMEMBERED | 314 |
20 REVIVAL DAYS | 332 |
8 THE FIRST SENSATIONAL MUSICAL NOVELTY OF 1917 | 126 |
9 SOME RECORD | 141 |
10 SOUTHERN STOMPS | 158 |
11 RHYTHM KINGS | 180 |
12 MISTER JELLY | 201 |
21 STRUTTIN | 354 |
NOTES | 363 |
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