Bourbon Street Black: The New Orleans Black Jazzman

by Jack V. Buerkle and Danny Barker

Vintage book

Genres: Music, History, Jazz

254 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[David Nace]

I recently purchased another copy of this book. This time an autographed hardcover edition by both Danny and Jack. Jack was my sociology professor in the 1980s and used this as one of his class texts. A fantastic professor, Jack challenged us to look and think deeper at what we see and how we interpret the various communities in which we live, work, and play. The book’s coverage of the New Orleans jazz scene is outstanding. Danny and Jack capture not just facts, but through oral histories share early generation jazz members perceptions of the evolution of jazz in the Crescent City.

[Chadwick]

At times a little dry, this is nevertheless packed with a wonderful wealth of detail about jazz players in New Orleans in the 1960s.