Title: Walking with legends : Barry Martyn's New Orleans jazz odyssey /
Authors: Martyn, Barry, 1941-; Burns, Mick, 1942-; Burns, Mick, 1942-2007.
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Martyn, Barry,; Jazz musicians Louisiana New Orleans Biography.; Jazz Louisiana New Orleans History and criticism; New Orleans (La.) History.
Abstract: "Barry Martyn has been an exemplar of New Orleans jazz for over 40 years. What makes this drummer and band leader unique is that he was born in England and was the first white musician in America to join a black musician's union. Having performed and toured with some of the best New Orleans musicians, Martyn mentions in this memoir of a jazz life players who are far from household names-the book's greatest asset. Even among jazz aficionados, many of these players have gone unheralded, as New Orleans jazz is almost a world unto itself. Jazz musician and author Burns (Keeping the Beat on the Street: The New Orleans Brass Band Renaissance) tape-recorded over 40 hours of Martyn's stories and recollections. However, owing either to Burns's editing or to the difficult conversion of conversation into print, Martyn's stories are recounted in a very clipped style, and the project might have fared better as a film in which his tales could be heard."--Library Journal.
Contents: 1941-1960 : England and Canada -- 1961-1972 : New Orleans and England -- 1973-1984 : across the States and around the world -- 1985-2004 : New Orleans -- Appendixes. Barry Martyn collection of New Orleans interviews, Historic New Orleans Collection ; American Music Reissue Program ; Interviewees of the National Park Service interview program.