Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz (American Made Music Series) PDF
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A Trumpet around the Corner ALSO BY SAMUEL CHARTERS Music Jazz: New Orleans 1885–1957 The Country Blues Jazz: A History of the New York Scene The Poetry of the Blues The Bluesmen: The Story and the Music of the Men Who Made the Blues Robert Johnson The Legacy of the Blues: Art and Lives of Twelve Great Bluesmen Sweet as the Showers of Rain Spelmännen (The Swedish Fiddlers) The Roots of the Blues: An African Search The Blues Makers The Day Is So Long and the Wages So Small: Music on a Summer Island Blues Faces: A Portrait of the Blues Walking a Blues Road: A Blues Reader, 1956–2004 New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus Poetry The Children The Landscape at Bolinas Heroes of the Prize Ring Days, or, Days as Thoughts in a Season’s Uncertainties To This Place From a London Notebook From a Swedish Notebook Of Those Who Died: A Poem of the Spring of 1945 Fiction Mr. Jabi and Mr. Smythe Jelly Roll Morton’s Last Night at the Jungle Inn Louisiana Black Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After The Ed Sullivan Show Criticism Some Poems/Poets: Studies in American Underground Poetry Since 1945 Biography I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik (with Ann Charters) Mambo Time: The Story of Bebo Valdés Memoir A Country Year: A Chronicle Translations Baltics (from the Swedish of Tomas Tranströmer) We Women (from the Swedish of Edith Södergran) The Courtyard (from the Swedish of Bo Carpelan) Anthology Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (with Ann Charters) A Trumpet AROUND CORNER THE THE STORY OF NEW ORLEANS J A Z Z SAMUEL CHARTERS University Press of Mississippi Jackson Publication of this book is made possible in part by a gift from John N. Palmer. AmericAn mAde music series Advisory Board David Evans, General Editor John Edward Hasse Barry Jean Ancelet Kip Lornell Edward A. Berlin Frank McArthur Joyce J. Bolden Bill Malone Rob Bowman Eddie S. Meadows Susan C. Cook Manuel H. Peña Curtis Ellison David Sanjek William Ferris Wayne D. Shirley Michael Harris Robert Walser www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Unless credited otherwise, illustrations in this book are in the public domain, and they have been selected from materials in the collection of the Samuel and Ann Charters Archive of Vernacular African American Music and Culture in the Dodd Research Center, at the Storrs campus of the University of Connecticut. Their use in this book does not constitute any claim of ownership or reprint rights. The original examples of those illustrations identified as in the Samuel Charters Collection are owned by the author. Copyright © 2008 by Samuel Charters All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2008 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Charters, Samuel Barclay. A trumpet around the corner : the story of New Orleans jazz / Samuel Charters. p. cm. — (American made music series) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 978-1-57806-898-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Jazz—Louisiana—New Orleans—History and criticism. 2. Jazz musicians—Louisiana—New Orleans. I. Title. ML3508.8.N48C44 2008 781.6509763’35—dc22 2007033564 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available In the 1950s, when New Orleans was quieter than it is today, if I found the place where the Eureka Brass Band was meeting for a parade, but I got there after they’d already started, if I just stood still and listened, I could hear a trumpet around the corner. . . . For Leonard Kunstadt and Dave Van Ronk who loved the music as I do—and would have argued with me about something on every page. Contents Acknowledgments xi Counting Off the Beat: An Introduction 3 1. A City like No Other 9 2. People, Faces 23 3. A Society to Itself 43 4. Papa Jack’s Boys 64 5. The Other Side of Town 79 6. On the Circuit 97 7. “Jass” 111 8. The First Sensational Musical Novelty of 1917! 126 9. Some Record! 141 10. Southern Stomps 158 11. Rhythm Kings 180 12. Mister Jelly 201 13. Bouncing Around 220 14. Out to the Halfway House 238 15. Kings of New Orleans 258 16. The Tiger’s Paw 273 17. The Prodigal 287 18. Jazz Nights 299 19. Glories, Remembered 314 20. Revival Days 332 21. Struttin’ 354 Notes 363 Bibliography 370 Index 373 ix
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