Tagged: Storyville

07/27/2013

#‎NOLA‬ New Orleans’ ‪#‎Storyville‬ big on music but thin on plot http://nola.tw/Mf

11/12/2012

The red-light district of Storyville, New Orleans #NOLA is closed down by the US Navy in 1917. This forces many ragtime and jazz musicians to leave the city seeking employment. http://nola.tw/Fo

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1903 - Emmett Hardy was born on this day. Traditional jazz cornetist from Gretna, Louisiana. Emmett was considered a dixieland prodigy and is said to have influenced a young, Bix Beiderbecke while on tour with the Carlisle Evans band. Hardy died at 22 years of age, but before that time, he played with Tony Catalano in Chicago, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Norman Brownlee. Emmett died in Gretna, Louisiana on June 16, 1925.

fact

1903 - Emmett Hardy was born on this day. Traditional jazz cornetist from Gretna, Louisiana. Emmett was considered a dixieland prodigy and is said to have influenced a young, Bix Beiderbecke while on tour with the Carlisle Evans band. Hardy died at 22 years of age, but before that time, he played with Tony Catalano in Chicago, the New Orleans Rhythm Kings and Norman Brownlee. Emmett died in Gretna, Louisiana on June 16, 1925.

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