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175:; and jazz played by white musicians in Chicago. Charles Edward Smith wrote "the highly charged romantic evocations of the scene for each of the four settings of the book: New Orleans, Chicago, New York, and the jazz environment everywhere in the United States." The first section of the book – "Callin' Our Chillun' Home" – "created what has become the legendary account of the development of early jazz". There are no footnotes giving sources. 226:
what followed over the next half century was a flood of recordings of what came to be known as the music of the New Orleans Revival. Within a few months of its publication there was interest in finding and perhaps recording some of the musicians Charlie Smith described in his final chapters about
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The story that emerged in the book's pages would not have achieved such immediate acceptance if it didn't fill a need for a myth. For its editors and writers it was an act of faith to create a story that would lend the beginnings of jazz in New Orleans a closer indebtedness to black musical
27: 137:. Unimpressed by Lewis's claim to have been a jazz pioneer, the young editor reported to his superior that he could write a better history of the music than Lewis had. The senior editor then suggested that he do so. 148:. He found the inspiration for his writing not only by talking with the veteran musicians who could take him back to the old days, but also by hanging out in the clubs that still were open". 118:
in 1939. It was the first jazz history book published in the United States and helped establish a story of early jazz as well as renewing interest in those forms of music and their players.
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spent several weeks in New Orleans, as part of the research he and other writers were doing for the book
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was to trace the origins of jazz, which was done in part by trying to find information about cornetist
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in 1939. It was the first book on jazz history to be published in the United States.
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The book also helped renew interest in an early form of jazz:
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Trumpet Around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
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what he'd heard in the Mardi Gras bars and dance halls.
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Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
Charles Edward Smith
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
Charles Edward Smith
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Frederic Ramsey, Jr.
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Ted Lewis
Charles Edward Smith
William Russell
Roger Pryor Dodge
Bix Beiderbecke
boogie woogie
Harcourt, Brace & Company
Buddy Bolden
Samuel Charters
Bunk Johnson










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