Jazz in Pictures!

Impossible to capture jazz in pictures, you say?

Well, a recently published book, HISTORIC PHOTOS OF NEW ORLEANS JAZZ (Turner Publishing), with text by our good friend Tom Morgan, achieves the closest thing: with period pictures culled from national and private archives, the collection presents a thorough glance at many of the people and places that shaped New Orleans music.

The collection is a visual record of key figures like Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Kid Ory, Papa Celestin and King Oliver (check out the awesome two-page spread opener), and can also serve as a primer on the musical history of our city. Among my favorites, I can list the portrait of a young Satchmo next to his mentor on page 27,two young men by the name of Wynton and Brandford on page 187, as well as the "we-just-finished-a-bar-brawl" look on the New Orleans Owls on page 30.

Tom will be holding several book-signings around town during the rest of the year, so be on the lookout for one near you.

UPCOMING BOOK-SIGNINGS
Wednesday Dec 2: 7-9 pm, Elysian Fields Inn, 930 Elysian Fields Avenue.