Beginning with a portrait of Buddy Bolden, "the first man of jazz", this book also contains Danny Barker's own recollections of Storyville in its last days, and of life on the road with Cab Calloway, with a memoir of trombonist Charlie Green. It includes material from the Jazzland Research Guild, an organization Barker founded in the 1940s to research the backgrounds of his colleagues. The text has been edited by Alyn Shipton from Barker's copious drafts and notes, together with transcripts of their conversations together. ...
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Beginning with a portrait of Buddy Bolden, "the first man of jazz", this book also contains Danny Barker's own recollections of Storyville in its last days, and of life on the road with Cab Calloway, with a memoir of trombonist Charlie Green. It includes material from the Jazzland Research Guild, an organization Barker founded in the 1940s to research the backgrounds of his colleagues. The text has been edited by Alyn Shipton from Barker's copious drafts and notes, together with transcripts of their conversations together. In it, Bolden is recalled by jazz artists Jelly Roll Morton and Bunk Johnson, with whom Danny Barker worked. The book aims to brings to life turn-of-the-century New Orleans in detail.
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Fair. An acceptable and readable copy. All pages are intact, and the spine and cover are also intact. This item may have light highlighting, writing or underlining through out the book, curled corners, missing dust jacket and or stickers.
