Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz

by Samuel Charters

Samuel Charters has been studying and writing about New Orleans music for more than fifty years. A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz is the first book to tell the entire story of a century of jazz in New Orleans. Although there is still controversy over the racial origins and cultural sources of New Orleans jazz, Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all three of the city's musical lineages--African American,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 149684954X
• ISBN13: 9781496849540
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"