New Book from LSU Press: Traditional New Orleans Jazz...

Longtime New Orleans jazz journalist has recently published a book, Traditional New Orleans Jazz, Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music (LSU Press, 2011).

Baton Rouge, LA- About a century after its beginnings, traditional jazz remains the definitive music of New Orleans and an international hallmark of the city. In Traditional New Orleans Jazz veteran jazz journalist Thomas Jacobsen discusses the music's legacy with a who's who of the present-day scene's players, from Lionel Ferbos—the city's oldest working jazz musician in the city—to Grammy winner Irvin Mayfield.

Through intimate conversations with jazz veterans and up-and-coming talent, Jacobsen elicits honest, witty, and at times comedic discussions that reveal a strong mutual devotion to do one thing—compose and play music inspired by the Crescent City's earliest jazz musicians. This candid and entertaining book confirms that traditional New Orleans jazz is a culture of its own, and the players in this remarkable volume are its native speakers.

Advance praise for Traditional New Orleans Jazz:

“Thomas Jacobsen is not only incredibly knowledgeable about jazz, he is clearly at ease with the community of artists he writes about—authentic to the core." —Charles Suhor, author of Jazz in New Orleans: the Postwar Years through 1970

“This volume is packed with history and should be read by all who are interested in both the evolution of the New Orleans sound and in jazz itself." —W. Royal Stokes, author ofGrowing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers.

Thomas W. Jacobsen received his doctoral degree from the University of Pennsylvania and is professor emeritus at Indiana University. A resident of New Orleans for the last two decades, he has published extensively on New Orleans jazz in numerous jazz periodicals.
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