With Louis and the Duke: The Autobiography of a Jazz Clarinetist

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
“All my people, they all spoke French.”....Pages 5-9
“I wanted to be a musician.”....Pages 10-13
‘The best damned clarinet player in New Orleans.’....Pages 14-19
“All down the line there was music.”....Pages 20-26
“He was the King all right.”....Pages 27-34
“Oh! That music.”....Pages 35-39
“Give the Apple one more crack.”....Pages 40-43
“I started that Friday and ended fourteen years later.”....Pages 44-52
“The fastest company in the whole wide world.”....Pages 53-58
“They kept us runnin’, night and day.”....Pages 59-61
“Everybody in the band knew they were working with a genius.”....Pages 62-65
“The rigors of the never ending road.”....Pages 66-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
“The guys all asked me what I wanted with that old man.”....Pages 81-86
“I never was conscious that there was a whole movement.”....Pages 87-91
“Shoot, shoot and reshoot.”....Pages 92-95
“The All Stars.”....Pages 96-109
“Like I said, there’ll never be another.”....Pages 110-115
“From the inside looking out.”....Pages 116-119
“Guys came and went, but the band kept on going.”....Pages 120-124
“Play your own way.”....Pages 125-127
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
“I was never destined to rest for long.”....Pages 128-132
“Five years later it was still Indiana.”....Pages 133-136
“In the middle of a tour I read I had retired.“....Pages 137-141
“Finally they sent a Rolls-Royce.”....Pages 142-145
Back Matter....Pages 146-152