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Just after World War I, the musical style called jazz began a waterborne journey outward from that quintessential haven of romance and decadence, New Orleans. For the first time in any organized way, steam-driven boats left town during the summer months to tramp the Mississippi River, bringing an exotic new music to the rest of the nation. For entrepreneurs promoting jazz, this seemed a promising way to spread northward the exciting sounds of the Crescent City. And the musicians no longer had to wait for folks upriver to ...

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Jazz on the River 2013, University of Chicago Press

ISBN-13: 9780226102672

Trade paperback

Jazz on the River 2005, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226437330

2nd edition

Hardcover