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BOOKS

1)
Brass Bands & New Orleans Jazz


Author          : William J. Schafer
Publisher     : Louisiana State
                         University Press - 1977
ISBN             : 0-8071-0280-6
Information :
A history of Brass Bands and their music.

2)
Fallen Heroes

 


Author          : Richard H.Knowles
Publisher     : Jazzology Press - 1996
ISBN             : 0-9638 890-3-6
Information :
A history of New Orleans Brass Bands, is the subtitel of this book. On the included CD there're some wonderful examples of traditional Brass Band music.
www.jazzology.com

3)
New Orleans Style


 

 

 


Author          : Bill Russell
Publisher     : Jazzology Press - 1994
ISBN             : 0-9638 890-1-X
Information :
"at The Dawn Of This Century A New Music Was Born In New Orleans." So Begins Bill Russell's Essay That Opens The Book. The Following Pages A Series Of Interviews With 24 Legendary Musicians, Attempt To Shed Light On The Beginnings And Growth Of That New Music And The Meaning And Nature Of The "new Orleans Style."
www.jazzology.com

4)
New Orleans Jazz: a revised history

 

 

 


Author          : R. Collins
Publisher     : Vantage Press - 1996
ISBN             : 0-533-11427-6
Information :
Hardbound, 293 pages and a lot of photo's

5)
 


Author          : Donald M. Marquis
Publisher     : Da Capo Press - 1978
ISBN             : 0-306-80130-2
Information :
Paperback 170 pages and a lot of photo's.
this book overlays the myths, with the substance of reality. Interviews with those who knew Bolden and an extensive array of primary sources enliven and inform the author absorbing portrait of the brief but brilliant career of the first man of Jazz.

6)
Bunk Johnson his life & times


Author          : Christopher Hillman
Publisher     : New York, University
                         books - 1988

ISBN             : 0-876637454
Information :
Music American Jazz Biography Johnson Bunk 1889-1949.
Hardcover, 128 pages

7)
New Orleans


Author          : Adam Olivier
Publisher     :     - 1980
ISBN             :
Information :
Booklet in Dutch written by Dutch trumpet player Adam Olivier

8)
Louis Armstrong New Orleans


Author          : Thomas Brothers
Publisher     : W.W. Norton & Company -         
                          1988
ISBN             : 0 393 06109 4
Information :
Biography Louis Armstrong
Hardcover, 398 pages

9)
Keeping the beat on the street


Author         : Mick Burns
Publisher    : Louisiana State University
                       
Press - 2006
ISBN             : 0-8071-3048-6
Information :
Told in the words of the musicians themselves, Keeping the Beat on the Street celebrates the renewed passion and page antry among black brass bands in New Orleans. Mick Burns introduces the people who play the music and shares their insights, showing why New Orleans is the place where jazz continues to grow.
www.louisianamusicfactory.com

10)
Jazzmen


Author          : Ramsey, Frederic Jr.;
                        Smith, Charles Edward
Publisher     : New York, Harcourt,
                         Brace - 1939
ISBN             : 0403016541
Information :
A colorful, lusty book about men who made jazz and how they played it. This is the rousing story of the cabarets and halls and good-time flats of Basin Street in New Orleans, where jazz began with the music of Bunk Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Bolden, and other great pioneers.
Hardcover, 360 pages

11)
The Jazz Crusade


Author          : Big Bill Bissonnette
Publisher     : Special request books -
                         1992
ISBN             : 0-9632297-0-2
Information :
The inside story of the Great New Orleans Jazz Revival of the 1960s
342 pages with a CD of the bands Bill Bissonnette recorded on his label Jazz Crusade
www.jazzcrusade.com

12)
Satchmo: My life in New Orleans


Author          : Louis Armstrong
Publisher     : Prentice Hall. Place of Publication:
                        New York. Publication Year: 1954.
ISBN             : 9780306802768
Information :
Autobiography Louis Armstrong
Hardcover, 248 pages

13)
The Great Olympia Band


Author          : Mick Burns
Publisher     : Jazzology Press - 2001
ISBN             : 0-9638 890-8-7
Information :
The history of the (Dejan's) Olympia Brassband on 220 pages and included a CD.
www.jazzology.com     
www.louisianamusicfactory.com

14)
Shining Trumpets


Author          : Rudi Blesh
Publisher     : Alfred A Knopf - 1946
ISBN             : L.C. Catalog card 58-9674
Information :
The wholenoisy, excisting, and bespangled story of jazz and its creaters

15)
jazz on the road

Jazz on the Road by Chris Wilkinson


Author          : Christopher Wilkinson
Publisher     : Univ of California Press
                         - 2001
ISBN             : 0520229835

Information :
Paperback 290 pages

16)
New Orleans Jazz: A family album
            


Author          : Al Rose and Edmond Souchon
Publisher     : Louisiana State University Press
                        Baton Rouge.
                        Publication Year: 1967.
Lib Congress cat. card number: 66-25975
Information :
A photo book first published in 1967 and subsequently revised in 1978 and 1984.
Hardcover, 302 pages

17)
Storyville, New Orleans

 


Author          : Al Rose
Publisher     : University of Alabama Press
                        Tuscaloosa.
                        Publication Year: 1974.
Lib Congress cat. card number: 74-491
Information : An Authentic Illustrated Account of the Notorious Redlight District.
Paperback edition 1979, 225 pages

18)
Exploring Early Jazz

 

 


Author          : Daniel Hardie
Publisher     : iUniverse
                        Publication Year: 2002.
ISBN: 0-595-21876-8
Information : This book tells the story of the hectic thirty years during which the basic jazz of Buddy Bolden developed into Classic Jazz and then passed into History. It uncovers the music of the twenty hidden years before first the recordings began to appear. It is also the saga of the first jazz bands, their struggle to adapt to the changing demands of their audiences and the impetus they gave to the roaring twenties.
Paperback 410 pages

New Orleans Jazz Club
The Second Line

A History of Jazz funeral

The Second Line is the magazin of the New Orleans Jazzclub.
The Tuxedo Brass band is playing a traditional Jazz Funeral in New Orleans.

Price: $ 5.00
www.nojazzclub.com

   

VIDEO - DVD

 

Sing on

Video

Production  : Barry Martin
Publisher     : American Music AMVD 2
Information : Video
A film of New Orleans Brass Bands, starting with the film of the Jack Laine's Reliance Brass Band (1914)!

New Orleans Jazz Funerals from the inside

DVD

 

Produced          : David M. Jones
Co-produced   : Milton Batiste
Information     : DVD
Running Time: 50 minutes
Color
Hosted & Narrated by Milton Batiste - Lead Trumpet and Manager Of Dejan's Olympia Brass Band
New Orleans Jazz Funerals from the inside a fun and funky documentary that explores this unique tradition with Archival footage, contemporary interviews and lots of great moments. Learn how the term "Jazz Funeral" came to be and what it really means to "Cut the Body Loose" and dance in the "Second Line." All set against the brassy backbeat of Dejan's Olympia Brass Band.

This is the DVD from the earlier video. Special features are the jazz funerals of Milton Batiste (2001) and Harold Dejan (2002)
www.louisianamusicfactory.com

 

New Orleans Jazz Funerals from the inside

Video

Production   : 
Publisher     :
Information : Video
Hosted by Milton Batiste (Olympia Brass Band) he tells of the fascinating celebration of death, from the perstective of musicians, family and scholars.

 

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Last updated: 09-04-2010