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Little Louis: Louis Armstrong and the Birth of Jazz
The first jazz musician is a ghost. No recording of Buddy Bolden survives — the cylinders his band cut were thrown away as trash. What we know about him comes from the...
Below Sea Level: How New Orleans Built American Music
The Mississippi River drains thirty-one states and two Canadian provinces into a city that should not exist. New Orleans was founded in 1718 in a swamp, below sea leve...