Let’s go back to the real New Orleans Jazz. Recenlty I found a vinyl album where Claude Luter plays New Orleans Jazz. So prepare for some nice Dixieland Jazz from Bechet and other great jazz performers.
We only called the music “jazz” after someone in the audience one night in Chicago kept holdering at us to “Jazz it up”! and it seemed to fit for the music. No, I never heard the word in New Orleans. I found out later it was a fould word in Chicago, but I guess we [...]
New Orleans seems to have used music to observe and celebrate a larger number of high days and holidays than any other American city. In the last decades of the nineteenth century it was hard to avoid music in the city of New Orleans for too long. Sounds hung in the air, whether in the begin cool of winter or the hot humidity of summer, mingling with the sights and sounds of this fascinating cosmopolitan city.