Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930

by William Howland Kenney

Book Overview

The setting is the Royal Gardens Cafe. It's dark, smoky. The smell of gin permeates the room. People are leaning over the balcony, their drinks spilling on the customers below. On stage, King Oliver and Louis Armstrong roll on and on, piling up choruses, the rhythm section building the beat until tables, chairs, walls, people, move with the rhythm. The time is the 1920s. The place is South Side Chicago, a town of dance halls and cabarets, Prohibition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195064534
• ISBN13: 9780195064537
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Authentic, good reading.

Gave this to my Dad who grew up in the environment and it took him back. He loved it.