Mutt Carey in New Orleans - at the end of 1911
from Hear Me Talkin' To Ya: The Classic Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It, pages 47-48:
I took a job playing in a tonk for Dago Tony on Perdido and Franklin Street and Louis [Armstrong] used to slip in there and get on the music stand behind the piano. He would fool around with my cornet every chance he got. I showed him just how to hold it and place it to his mouth, and he did so, and it wash't long before he began getting a good tone out of my horn. Then I began showing him just how to start the blues, and little by little he began to understand. Now here is the year Louis started. I twas in the latter part of 1911, as close as I can think. Louis was about eleven years old. … more >>
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. 47-48. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1433677497802 accessed: 10 March, 2025
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| cornet music | performed by Louis Armstrong |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | at the end of 1911 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | indoors, in public |