Johnny Dodds by G.E. Lambert
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Overview: In the years when New Orleans was the premier centre of jazz that is from around 1900 to the closing of the Storyville red light district in 1918 it was a city flooded with music. Every possible occasion picnics, advertising, trips on the Mississippi was provided with music; every place of diversion the bars, theatres, brothels and gambling joints had its musicians. Parades by the various organizations had their brass bands, which also played for the unique New Orleans funerals, and dance orchestras of all types were to be heard within the city limits. In the Creole and Negro districts there was scarcely a family who did not boast of several part-time musicians, and there were hundreds of skilled local professionals playing in the various parade bands, jazz bands, society bands and riverboat orchestras. To judge from the material collected by later historians, the doings of the favourite musicians of the city were looked upon with the same interest which the mass of people today accord to sporting heroes and popular cinema or television personalities.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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