All That Savannah Jazz...From Brass Bands, Vaudeville, to Rhythm and Blues

by Charles J. Elmore

Genres: Music, History

280 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 31, 1999

Reviews

[Aberjhani · Rating 5 out of 5]

historian charles j. elmore did the world of music in general and that of jazz in particular a huge favor when he meticulously researched and wrote all that savannah jazz. by doing so, elmore demonstrated that georgia s famous hostess city was a major point of incubation for the development of the music the world has come to know and celebrate as jazz. like new orleans in the late 1800s, it was home to a number of the kinds of brass bands that eventually evolved into jazz bands. and like new york city during the 1920s through the 1950s, it maintained dozens of clubs where jazz was the music of preference. elmore s book is filled with photographs, biographical profiles, short essays, and historical ads that place his hometown alongside new orleans and kansas city as one of the most important birthplaces of jazz.[return][return][return]aberjhani[return]author of visions of a skylark dressed in black[return]and encyclopedia of the harlem renaissance