{"product_id":"a-trumpet-around-the-corner-9781496849540","title":"A Trumpet around the Corner","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first book to tell the full 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, Samuel Charters provides a balanced assessment of the role played by all of the city's musical lineages - African American, white and Creole - in jazz's formative years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat Samuel Charters offers is a valentine to his first musical love and a fresh perspective on the pioneers and their progeny who helped define the Big Easy's signature music. As arguably the foremost and most prolific scholar of blues and African American vernacular music, with a career as an author and record producer spanning fifty years, Charters has undeniably brought an epic sweep and unique command to this narrative.\" - Joshua Berrett, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lifetime of work, thought, and enjoyment goes into anything Samuel Charters write about jazz or New Orleans, and that personal history shines through \u003ci\u003eA Trumpet around the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e. . . . [B]oth specialists and general readers will find much of interest in Charters's story of New Orleans jazz.\" - Spencer Downing, \u003cem\u003eLouisiana History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Charters] skillfully traces the history of this music from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century. . . . \u003ci\u003eA Trumpet around the Corner\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on the development of New Orleans jazz and is a pleasure to read.\" - Charles Hersch, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of American History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eA Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz\u003c\/i\u003e, Samuel Charters returns to his first musical love with an expanded perspective, offering valuable insights on the stylistic development of New Orleans jazz pioneers (white and black) by a close analysis of extant recordings, placed in historical context. This is one of the very few studies that treats New Orleans jazz in the 1920s, an often overlooked time when the music continued to grow in its home environment.\" - Bruce Boyd Raeburn, Curator, Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50058991894871,"sku":"9781496849540","price":23.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496849540.jpg?v=1740453210","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-trumpet-around-the-corner-9781496849540","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}