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Telling It Like It Is

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  • © 1987

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Authors:
  1. Joe Darensbourg
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Editors:
  1. Peter Vacher
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Prologue

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 1-4

  3. Every little town in Louisiana had some kind of band

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 5-27

  4. Doc Moon could sell an icebox to an Eskimo

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 28-49

  5. Los Angeles was really jumping

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 50-71

  6. There’s never been a town like Seattle

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 72-95

  7. I never did lose my touch for dixieland

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 96-120

  8. Ory was a very suspicious character

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 121-146

  9. Yes, the Lord picked out Louis

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 147-168

  10. I know I’ll be playing until I cut out

    • Joe Darensbourg, Peter Vacher
    Pages 169-195

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 197-231
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About this book

The autobiography of one of the foremost jazz clarinetists who is well known for his recordings with Edward 'Kid' Ory and the Louis Armstrong All Stars. Darensbourg was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1906 and heard many early New Orleans jazz bands as a young boy. For most of his life he lived on the West Coast and the book is a first-rate reference source for students of jazz and popular music in the urban centres of Seattle and Los Angeles.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Telling It Like It Is

  • Authors: Joe Darensbourg

  • Editors: Peter Vacher

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08730-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

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

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-08730-3Published: 29 September 1987

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 264

  • Topics: Music

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