A Life in Jazz

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The French Quarter and my grandparents....Pages 1-5
My mother and stepfather....Pages 6-10
Animule Hall....Pages 11-20
Barbarin house and my first funeral....Pages 21-24
Isidore Barbarin....Pages 25-28
Barbarin boys and Walter Blue’s death....Pages 29-34
The Boozan Kings....Pages 35-41
My graduation as a professional....Pages 42-47
Jazz funerals and brass bands....Pages 48-56
Feudin’ and a-fussin’....Pages 57-65
The pine-scented sovereign state of Mississippi....Pages 66-79
Dixies....Pages 80-104
All them women belong to me....Pages 105-107
Dan and Lu’s marriage....Pages 108-112
Jelly Roll Morton in New York....Pages 113-128
Louis Armstrong and trumpet rivalry....Pages 129-133
New York clubs and the Harlem Renaissance....Pages 134-140
Around the New York scene....Pages 141-156
The record business....Pages 157-162
Cab Calloway’s band travels....Pages 163-169
Bebop and how I left Calloway’s band....Pages 170-177
California, New Orleans and the Capitol sides....Pages 178-187
New York dixieland revival....Pages 188-192
Return to New Orleans and the Jazz Museum....Pages 193-199
Back Matter....Pages 200-223