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Yes, that’s Sharkey Bonano with the big bowler and the 18 karat trumpet hot lipping at Bourbon Street’s DREAM ROOM in New Orleans. Since the 1.920’s his playing and singing have created jazz aficionados and since 1925 he has been a jazz leader.
rag-time and cake walks of the dance halls, the bawdy ballads of the barrel houses, the sensual love lyrics of unashamed human passions and the voodoo rites and tribal chants of atavistic Africa all blended and belonged.
New Orleans—where all these assorted sounds and sensations pounded on the emotions of its black musicians, who listened and locked them in their skulls, rearranged them and returned them in a brand new robust music. A French quadrille became the pulse racing Tiger Rag. Spirituals were transformed into gut-bucket blues. They took all they remembered, borrowed or felt — for few could read the written notes—gave them a new beat, a new syncopation, that famous four quarter time and the off pitch
WHERE JAZZ WA
In “New Or-leens”— the ho Armstrong and “Jelly Roll trombone, the blues and
By Ray M. Thompson • Photos by Hamill. Audrey Murphy New Orleans (marked with a dot).
HERE’S the marrow of it! Jazz was conceived in the African jungle and birthed in New Orleans—the lusty child of the musical mating of • slavery and freedom.
Not Richmond nor Charleston nor Atlanta nor any of the other great cities of the slave holding South — but New Orleans! The only place in all America where all the causes that created it met and merged and mingled! Congo Square that suckled it . . . New Orleans Opera that godmothered it . . . the carnival and
Mardi Gras marching bands that promoted it and paraded it . . . and Story-ville that gave it steady employment and brought it to musical maturity.
New Orleans—where the exotic dances of the Caribbean, the precise quadrilles and minuets of the French dancing masters, the rollicking tunes of the Ten-nesfee and Kentucky boatmen, the rhythmic work sonprs of the river roustabouts, the soaring spirituals of the plantation field hands, the arias of operas, the street cries of the vendors, the popular
Any night at Bourbon Street’s PADDOCK CLUB — with Bill Matthews and his Dixieland Band! Bill, with the trombone is one of the originals who has been playing New Orleans jazz for iO years. This is “Papa” Celestin’s old band, we understand.
playing to produce that melancholy mood, and steadily developed the polyphonic phenomenon that New Orleans casually cradled, carelessly reared and calmly sent out into the world without a name.
For not until scarlet Storyville was abruptly closed and its unemployed cornets, trombones and clarinets had made their way North did this magnificent New Orleans music become known first as “jass” and later as “jazz.”
Jazz began over a century ago with the bamboulas in Congo Square, but it didn’t receive its birth certificate until
For nearly ten years Tony Almerico’s Original Dixieland Jamboree All Stars have beeyi entertaining New Orleans guests and jazz fans with jazz concerts every Sunday Afternoon 3 to 6 P.M. at 116 Royal Street’s upstairs PARISIAN ROOM.
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