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The Drain: New Orleans Music From Professor Longhair to Katrina
Professor Longhair kicked the bass of his piano to keep time. The Meters stripped the second line down to funk. Then the levees broke. New Orleans music from Longhair ...
Little Louis: Louis Armstrong and the Birth of Jazz
The first jazz musician is a ghost — no recording of Buddy Bolden survives. This is the story of the music from Bolden through Storyville to the kid who became Louis A...
Below Sea Level: How New Orleans Built American Music
New Orleans should not exist — a city in a swamp, below sea level, at the mouth of a continent. It became the place that built American music: jazz, blues, R&B, funk, ...