What I'm trying to do is come up to the standards all those trumpet giants have set - Armstrong , Gillespie , Navarro , Brown , Miles , Freddie Hubbard , and Don Cherry . And that's not an easy task.is The question of influences stalks ...
"Music is the memory of New Orleans. For all of the corruption, poverty and violence, the music is elemental, a gorgeous collective chorus to the best instincts of the human...
This book is an intimate history of New Orleans music during the last 45 years.
Up from the Cradle of Jazz is an intimate history of New Orleans music during the last 45 years. It describes the piano playing of Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, James...
A history of New Orleans music in the four decades since World War II. In particular, it tells of the rise of rhythm and blues, a musical form rooted in...