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Zusatztext an extroadinary definitive work that illuminates the careers of many previously overlooked members of that historically important band.' Informationen zum Autor Lawrence Gushee is Professor Emeritus of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext Thanks to the pioneering tours of the Creole Band! jazz began to be heard nationwide on the vaudeville stages of America from 1914 to 1918. This seven-piece band toured the country! exporting for the first time the authentic jazz strains that had developed in New Orleans at the start of the20th century. The band's vaudeville routines were deeply rooted in the minstrel shows and plantation cliches of American show business in the late 19th century! but its instrumental music was central to its performance and distinctive and entrancing to audiences and reviewers. Pioneers of Jazz reveals at long last the link between New Orleans music and the jazz phenomenon that swept America in the 1920s. While they were the first important band from New Orleans to attain national exposure! The Creole Band has not heretofore been recognized for its unique importance. Butin his monumental! careful research! jazz scholar Lawrence Gushee firmly establishes the group's central role in jazz history. Gushee traces the troupe's activities and quotes the reaction of critics and audiences to their first encounters with this new musical phenomenon. While audiences often expected (and got) a kind of minstrel show! the group transcended expectations! taking pride in their music and facing down thetheatrical establishment with courage. Although they played the West Coast and Canada! most of their touring centered in the heartland. Most towns of any size in Iowa! Illinois! and Indiana heard them! often repeatedly! and virtually all of their appearances were received with wild enthusiasm. Afterfour years of nearly incessant traveling! members of the band founded or joined groups in Chicago'sSouth Side cabaret scene! igniting the craze for hot New Orleans music for which the Windy City was renowned in the early 1920s. The best-known musicians in the group--cornetist Freddie Keppard! clarinetist Jimmy Noone and string bassist Bill Johnson--would play a signif Zusammenfassung The Creole Band! which existed from 1914-1918! was the first important jazz band! bringing jazz to the wider American public! from California to Massachusetts. This is the first history of the important group! written by a renowned scholar of early jazz. ...
