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Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville

Buddy Bolden and the Last Days of Storyville

Barker, Danny
Baker, Danny
Shipton, Alyn L.

Paperback

Series: Bayou Jazz Lives

JazzMusic Reference

ISBN10: 0826457029
ISBN13: 9780826457028
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Sep 1 2001
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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 1,000 jazz, swing, blues, and bebop records. He is a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Music Master Award. Alyn Shipton is a writer and broadcaster on jazz. He is the editor of A Life in Jazz, the first volume of Danny Barker's memoirs.

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