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With Louis and the Duke

The Autobiography of a Jazz Clarinetist

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  • © 1985

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Authors:
  1. Barney Bigard
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Editors:
  1. Barry Martyn
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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Part One

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. “All my people, they all spoke French.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 5-9

    3. “I wanted to be a musician.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 10-13

    4. ‘The best damned clarinet player in New Orleans.’

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 14-19

    5. “All down the line there was music.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 20-26

    6. “He was the King all right.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 27-34

    7. “Oh! That music.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 35-39

    8. “Give the Apple one more crack.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 40-43

    9. “I started that Friday and ended fourteen years later.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 44-52

    10. “The fastest company in the whole wide world.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 53-58

    11. “They kept us runnin’, night and day.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 59-61

    12. “Everybody in the band knew they were working with a genius.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 62-65

    13. “The rigors of the never ending road.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 66-78

  3. Part Two

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79
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    2. “The guys all asked me what I wanted with that old man.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 81-86

    3. “I never was conscious that there was a whole movement.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 87-91

    4. “Shoot, shoot and reshoot.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 92-95

    5. “The All Stars.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 96-109

    6. “Like I said, there’ll never be another.”

      • Barney Bigard
      Pages 110-115
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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: With Louis and the Duke

  • Book Subtitle: The Autobiography of a Jazz Clarinetist

  • Authors: Barney Bigard

  • Editors: Barry Martyn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08314-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Barry Martyn 1985

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-08314-5Published: 17 December 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 170

  • Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Music

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