Summary: This performance-based music documentary shares intimate discussions with various iconic contemporary New Orleans musicians, highlighting their history and upbringing, while demonstrating how a musical tradition has shaped their identity, community, and learning environment for the youth of the Crescent City. Comprised of four years of interviews, cityscape cinematography, studio performances,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Orgill, Roxane

Summary: Relates how the famous jazz trumpeter began his musical career, as a poor boy in New Orleans, by singing songs on street corners and playing a battered cornet in a marching band.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Company 1997

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ARM

Summary: Documentary portrait of jazz visionary Sun Ra and his Arkestra.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SUN

Lewis, Ramsey.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal/Island Records 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ LEW