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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 1496821173
- ISBN10
- 1496821173
- ISBN13
- 9781496821171
- EAN
- 9781496821171
- MPN
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- Brand
- University Press of Mississippi
- GTIN
- 09781496821171
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Time of My Life: a Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
- Item Height
- 216mm
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Topic
- Music
- Item Width
- 140mm
- Number of Pages
- 202 Pages
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New Orleans is a kind of Mecca for jazz pilgrims, as Whitney Balliett once wrote. This memoir tells the story of one aspiring pilgrim, Clive Wilson, who fell in love with New Orleans jazz in his early teens while in boarding school in his native England. It is also his story of gradually becoming disenchanted with his family and English environment and, ultimately, finding acceptance and a new home in New Orleans. The timing of his arrival, at age twenty-two, just a few weeks after the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the end of legal segregation, placed him in a unique position with the mostly African American musicians in New Orleans. They showed him around, brought him into their lives, gave him music lessons, and even hired him to play trumpet in brass bands. In short, Wilson became more than a pilgrim; he became an apprentice, and for the first time, legally, in New Orleans, he could make that leap. Time of My Life: A Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans tells the story of Wilson's journey as he discovers the contrast between his imagined New Orleans and its reality. Throughout, he delivers his impressions and interactions with such local musicians as Fat Man Williams, Manuel Manetta, Punch Miller, and Billie and DeDe Pierce. As his playing improves, invitations to play in local bands increase. Eventually, he joins in the jam and, by doing so, integrates the Original Tuxedo Jazz Band, which had been in continuous existence since 1911. Except for a brief epilogue, this memoir ends in 1979, when Wilson assembles his own band for the first time, the Original Camellia Jazz Band, with musicians who had been among his heroes when he first arrived in New Orleans.
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Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN-13
9781496821171
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Time of My Life: a Jazz Journey from London to New Orleans
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Music
Publication Year
2019
Number of Pages
202 Pages
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Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Series Title
American Made Music Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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