excerpt from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It' pp. 38-39 (136 words)
excerpt from 'Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It' pp. 38-39 (136 words)
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They talk about Buddy Bolden--how, on some night, you could hear his horn ten miles away. Well, it could have happened, because the city of New Orleans has a different kind of acoustics from other cities. There is water all around the city. There is also water all under the city […] Adding to this dampness, there was the heat and humidity of the swamps, of the bayous all around New Orleans. From the meeting of the dampness and the heat, a mist, a vapour comes up into the air there [...] And because of all this, because sound travels better across water, and because of all those moving air currents, when you blew your horn in New Orleans-- especially on a clear night--when guys like Buddy Bolden would blow their beautiful brass trumpets, the sound carried. |
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