day 2: Thursday, October 6
Where jazz
was born As Ken Burns tells it: “Somewhere in the late 19th century, something happens, where you know it isn’t the blues… you know it isn’t all these other slave hymns and complex African polyrhythms that the slaves brought… it isn’t the Scotch-Irish Protestant hymns or the folksongs… the Viennese waltzes, or even the syncopation of ragtime…. it is a gumbo, a mixture of all these different things… born in the most cosmopolitan city in the United States, New Orleans.”
“It” was jazz... and today you’ll explore its roots in its birthplace, New Orleans, in some of the areas of the city where that “gumbo” was blended, brought to a simmer and seasoned throughout the early decades of the 20th century. Visit Basin Street Station, where local guides
tell the stories of Basin Street, the Storyville red-light district and homegrown jazz pioneers including Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. See actual instruments played by these and other giants of jazz – along with other artifacts from jazz history – on a backstage tour of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collections at the Old U.S. Mint. Explore Tulane University’s Hogan Jazz Archive with a presentation by its Curator, jazz historian Bruce Boyd Raeburn. And attend a private performance by saxophonist Donald Harrison, followed by time to enjoy New Orleans as you please.
backstage tour of LSM jazz collection
A cornet that Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong learned to play on... a horn and piano used by Bix Beiderbecke... “Kid” Ory’s trombone, George Lewis’ clarinet, Sidney Bechet’s soprano sax and Dizzy Gillespie’s trumpet... just a few notable instruments among the jazz treasures you’ll have an opportunity to view up close on your backstage tour of the Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collections housed in New Orleans’ Old U.S. Mint, a National Historic Landmark.
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