Sunday 14 June 2009

From crescent City to Windy city

In the 1920s, with many seminal jazz figures migrating north, the music's epicentre shifted from its birthplace in New Orleans to Chicago.One of the events that causes this mass exodus of pioneering musicians from the Crescent City was the official closing of Storyville, the city's red light district, in 1917.

"Chicago was really jumping around that time[1923].The dreamland was in full bloom.the lincon Gardens, of course, wass still in there.The plantation was another hot spot at that time. But the sunset, my boss'place , was the sharpest of them all, believe that" (Louis Armstrong)





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