Historic Photos of New Orleans Jazz
New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties. In the forties and fifties, the world came to New Orleans to hear authentic New Orleans jazz played by real jazz musicians. The sixties brought Preservation Hall, a musical institution that even a hurricane couldn’t kill. For the last 40 years, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival has been celebrating New Orleans’ and Louisiana’s unique culture and music.
This volume contains rare photographs from the Louisiana State Museum’s Jazz Collection, lovingly assembled and accompanied by captions written by award-winning author and Jazz Roots radio show host Tom Morgan. Those who love jazz will be amazed by these pictures of some of the best musicians ever to pick up an instrument. For those just beginning to learn about jazz, this 200-page volume is an excellent takeoff point to learn more about what made New Orleans jazz unique, and a source to discover musicians who can further enhance readers’ listening pleasure.
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Book details
- Author
- Thomas Morgan
- Imprint
- Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- History › United States › State & Local › South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Music › History & Criticism - Topics
- jazz history · Louisiana history · historic photography · Preservation Hall · New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival · American music history
- ISBN-13
- 9781684420971
About the author
THOMAS L. MORGAN is a jazz historian, writer, and radio producer who has been involved in public radio since 1981. He is the author of From Cakewalks to Concert Halls: An Illustrated History of African-American Popular Music from 1895 to 1930.
From Cakewalks to Concert Halls received second place in the 1992 Ralph Gleason Music Book Awards. Morgan hosts Jazz Roots (jass.com), a website dedicated to early jazz and the history of Black music in the early twentieth century.
When not writing, Morgan hosts the Tuesday New Orleans Music Show and the Wednesday Jazz Roots Show on WWOZ-FM, and serves as a main host for WWOZ’s live broadcasts from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.
Tom lives in New Orleans.