New Orleans: Playing a Jazz Chorus

by Samuel Charters

This book is a highly personal portrait of New Orleans and its music today - a city that has been hard hit by Katrina, but is managing to keep its great jazz tradition, brass band scene, incomparable food, and unique lifestyle vital and intact. Among the musicians and groups at the heart of the New Orleans jazz scene who make their appearance in this book are: The Rebirth Brass Band, Hot 8, The Soul Rebels, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Johnny...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714531316
• ISBN13: 9780714531311
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"