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Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville - Barker, Danny, and Shipton, Alyn (Editor)
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The first volume of Barker's memoirs, A Life in Jazz, followed him from New Orleans into the big bands of Cab Calloway and Benny Carter. He was working on this-the second volume-for some years before his death in 1994. Beginning with an extended portrait of Buddy Bolden as recalled by the likes of Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson as well as Barker himself, this book draws together a lifetime of stories and the vivid characters who populated "Storyville."Danny Barker (1909-1994) sang and played the guitar and banjo on over ...

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Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville 2001, Continuum, New York

ISBN-13: 9780826457028

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville 2001, Cassell, London, England

ISBN-13: 9780304701063

Hardcover