1972, ISBN: 9781230065298

Louisiana State Univ Pr. Paperback. New. Paperback. 138 pages. Dimensions: 8.8in. x 5.9in. x 0.4in.Foreword by Bruce Boyd RaeburnDrummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, a… More...

Louisiana State Univ Pr. Paperback. New. Paperback. 138 pages. Dimensions: 8.8in. x 5.9in. x 0.4in.Foreword by Bruce Boyd RaeburnDrummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England. Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended family based on merit as much as nativity. For more than fifty years, Martyn has been a fixture in the Crescent Citys jazz scene, laying down the beat for generations of celebrated musicians and avidly promoting the citys unique musical heritage around the world. In Walking with Legends--based on over forty hours of interviews with Martyn by fellow British jazz enthusiast and author Mick Burns--Martyn reflects upon his life in jazz and offers a window into a musical world that few have understood, let alone witnessed from the inside. Like thousands of teenagers in Europe in the 1950s, Martyn espoused New Orleans jazz with a fervor bordering on religious fanaticism. At the age of nineteen, he found his way to the Crescent City and began working as a professional drummer in clubs and studios. The first white man in the United States to join a black musicians union, he eventually started his own record label and recorded hundreds of jam sessions that today are regarded as classics in Europe. In 1972, he formed The Legends of Jazz, an old-style New Orleans jazz band that toured the world and took New Orleans jazz into the American showbiz mainstream. Martyns life story provides unique intimate glimpses of a vanished generation of New Orleans musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Kid Sheik Cola, Harold Dejan, Joe Watkins, Albert Nicholas, Kid Thomas, Andrew Blakeney, and many others. Throughout his chronicle, Martyn highlights the continual clash of cultures that arose from an avid British pupil learning lessons of life and music from elderly African American strangers who take him under their wing both out of curiosity and self-interest. Together, they find a way to connect through music, even if the road gets a little bumpy at times. Martyn punctuates the exploits of his musical mentors with punch lines, and his homespun mode of expression, coupled with Burnss deft and often humorous annotations, make for lively and entertaining reading. A standard-bearer for New Orleanss jazz drumming tradition, Martyn remains one of the citys busiest musicians and most avid promoters of New Orleans music. With Walking with Legends, he honors the legacies of the African American musicians who taught and inspired him and affirms the importance of the human relationships that make the music possible. 192 pages, 40 Halftones , 6 x 9 This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Louisiana State Univ Pr, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: . . . by lightning, the sea, not the blue, the ever free, but the bellowing, bold, bounding ocean, is pictured in such men as Reid. And as the vast procession followed his remains to their final repose in Greenwood, the scenes of our countrys triumph passed before each vision. The flags, waving at half-mast, told of the victories on sea and land, and the guns which boomed from the liattery recited over again the terrific fight of the General Armstrong against the midnight attack, in a neutral port, of the British assassin. were enlarged and strengthened. Castle Garden was erected at the foot of Broadway; Fort Gansevoort was built at the bend of the Hudson, foot of Gansevoort Street; Fort Stevens at Hallets Point near Hell Gate, with a stone tower on Lawrence Hill in its rear--the Long Island shore opposite was at the same time defended by fortifications at Bensons Point--and in the middle of the East River, Mill Rock was crowned with a block-house and battery; Forts Clinton and Fish were erected to protect McGowans Pass on the road to Harlem, and Fort Laight on the eminence overlooking Manhattanville. On the bank of the Hudson, near the residence of Viscount Courtenay, afterward Earl of Devon, was a strong stone tower, connected by a line of intrenchments with Fort Laight. Although the city could be approached from several directions, its attitude was so defiant that the prospect was not at all encouraging to the enemy. October brought no relief. Congress quarreled over a project for the removal of the seat of government, and talked about amending the Constitution; while various proposals to raise the prostrate credit of the United States engaged attention. George W. Campbell, Secretary of the Treasury since Gallatins departure for. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<

ISBN: 9781230065298

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.6in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: . . . by lightning, the sea, not the blue, the ever free, but the bellowing, bold, bounding ocean, is pictured in such men as Reid. And as the vast procession followed his remains to their final repose in Greenwood, the scenes of our countrys triumph passed before each vision. The flags, waving at half-mast, told of the victories on sea and land, and the guns which boomed from the liattery recited over again the terrific fight of the General Armstrong against the midnight attack, in a neutral port, of the British assassin. were enlarged and strengthened. Castle Garden was erected at the foot of Broadway; Fort Gansevoort was built at the bend of the Hudson, foot of Gansevoort Street; Fort Stevens at Hallets Point near Hell Gate, with a stone tower on Lawrence Hill in its rear--the Long Island shore opposite was at the same time defended by fortifications at Bensons Point--and in the middle of the East River, Mill Rock was crowned with a block-house and battery; Forts Clinton and Fish were erected to protect McGowans Pass on the road to Harlem, and Fort Laight on the eminence overlooking Manhattanville. On the bank of the Hudson, near the residence of Viscount Courtenay, afterward Earl of Devon, was a strong stone tower, connected by a line of intrenchments with Fort Laight. Although the city could be approached from several directions, its attitude was so defiant that the prospect was not at all encouraging to the enemy. October brought no relief. Congress quarreled over a project for the removal of the seat of government, and talked about amending the Constitution; while various proposals to raise the prostrate credit of the United States engaged attention. George W. Campbell, Secretary of the Treasury since Gallatins departure for. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<