Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band By Lawrence Gushee
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2005-05-12 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0195161319 | PDF | 6 MB
Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band, jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country, exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century…