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...rivals to a pastel pays, from which the troupe works its way back chez eux. En route, the plains and suburbs produce a supporting cast that is nothing less than Dickensian. Among the featured players: Roquefort the intrepid mouse, a scatsinging feline jazz band from the era of Sidney Bechet, a pair of American expatriate hound dawgs with IQs slightly lower than Corner Pyle's-and, most important, O'Malley, the alley cat. O'Malley's voice, as supplied by Phil Harris, could be poured on waffles. His inamorata, Duchess, is furnished with a Hungarian purr...
...been forgotten, lost, or given up for dead. Some had never played for white audiences before. Some had led proud, full bands before the depression. Nearly all of them had played with the greats of New Orleans jazz in their youths--Armstrong, Edmund Hall, Johnny Dodds, King Oliver, Sidney Bechet. These were just fellow musicians to these old men. There were only a handful of active musicians when Preservation Hall opened its gates to French Quarter audiences. When it became successful, the few active professionals were joined by others who had put their instruments down long ago. Before long, they...
...yourself urban folk music." trad rests mainly on the standard instruments-clarinet, trumpet, trombone-but now and again tosses in a banjo for such provincial classics as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. Chris Barber's Jazzband founded the movement with a bestselling version of Sidney Bechet's Petite Flew, and now the trad bands are so popular that they play everywhere-not only for jazz clubs and festivals, but also at debutante parties, society dances, on trans-Channel steamers, even waist-deep in swimming pools. Among the top tradders...
Jazz is no newcomer to the U.S.S.R. It has just been on a long vacation. In 1925 pudgy New Orleans Saxophonist Sidney Bechet gave Moscow its first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died...
...from early Christian chants to the present. Like any authoritative book that covers so vast a field, it seems perfunctory at times. But the basic information is there, and great taste has gone into the selection of 240 illustrations, ranging from a loth century B.C. harpist to Jazzman Sydney Bechet...