Kid Ory in New Orleans - early 20th Century
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, page 17:
And during Mardi Gras--man! That's when we really had fun. All day and night bands marched up and down the streets playing their heads off. We played sometimes for a local coloured fraternity and marched in front of their parade.
The whites had an idea of a real king--he came in on Canal Street. The coloured people had the King of the Zulus and he came in on Basin Street--dressed in funny feathers and straw--boy, that was something.
cite as
Nat Hentoff and Nat Shapiro, Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It (London, 1992), p. 17. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433407669740 accessed: 14 May, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| New Orleans Mardi Gras street music | performed by Kid Ory |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | early 20th Century |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Originally submitted by 5011Henning on Thu, 04 Jun 2015 09:47:49 +0100
Approved on Sat, 20 Aug 2016 15:42:08 +0100