Author Archives: Jason Berry

A Post-K Education

“The history of New Orleans in the wrenching aftermath of Hurricane Katrina can be telegraphed in one sentence. Politics failed, culture prevailed.” Jason Berry uses this thought to start “Memory of the Flood,” a new chapter added to the reprinted Up From the Cradle of Jazz, the history of New Orleans’ R&B generation written with [...]

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Rethinking the Roots of Jazz

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Allen Toussaint: On the Spiritual Side

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Jazz Funerals in Time

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Bill Russell’s Explorations of the Origins of Jazz

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Brass Bands After World War II: A Crossroads

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Davell Crawford Comes of Age

Snug Harbor: Jazz Haven

Five years ago New Orleans music was booming. Oil was flush, collaborations between musicians and various artists blossomed, and the town was pitched for a world’s fair whose promoters promised to transform the territory into a harvest of dollars at the bottom of America. Among the myriad ironies wrought by the debacle of the fair [...]

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