Редактор: Mick Burns Drummer, record producer, bandleader, jazz researcher, and cigar-chomping raconteur Barry Martyn is a New Orleans original who happens to have been born in England Implausible though this may seem, it makes perfect sense to members of the New Orleans traditional jazz community, who view themselves as an extended одихь family based on merit as much as nativity For more than fifty years, Martyn has been a fixture in the Crescent City's jazz scene, laying down the beat for generations of celebrated musicians and avidly promoting the city's unique musical heritage around the world In "Walking With Legends: Barry Martyn's New Orleans Jazz Odyssey" - based on over forty hours of interviews with Martyn by fellow British jazz enthusiast and author Mick Burns - Martyn reflects upon his life in jazz and offers a window into a musical world that few have understood, let alone witnessed from the inside Like thousands of teenagers in Europe in the 1950s, Martyn espoused New Orleans jazz with a fervor bordering on religious fanaticism At the age of nineteen, he found his way to the Crescent City and began working as a professional drummer in clubs and studios The first white man in the United States to join a black musician's union, he eventually started his own record label and recorded hundreds of jam sessions that today are regarded as classics in Europe In 1972, he formed The Legends of Jazz, an old-style New Orleans jazz band that toured the world and took New Orleans jazz into the American showbiz mainstream Martyn's life story provides unique intimate glimpses of a vanished generation of New Orleans musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Kid Sheik Cola, Harold Dejan, Joe Watkins, Albert Nicholas, Kid Thomas, Andrew Blakeney, and many others Throughout his chronicle, Martyn highlights the continual clash of cultures that arose from an avid British pupil learning lessons of life and music from elderly African American strangers who take him under their wing both out of curiosity and self-interest Together, they find a way to connect through music, even if the road gets a little bumpy at times Martyn punctuates the exploits of his musical mentors with punch lines, and his homespun mode of expression, coupled with Burns's deft and often humorous annotations, make for lively and entertaining reading A standard-bearer for New Orleans's jazz drumming tradition, Martyn remains one of the city's busiest musicians and most avid promoters of New Orleans music With Walking with Legends, he honors the legacies of the African American musicians who taught and inspired him and affirms the importance of the human relationships that make the music possible Foreword by Bruce Boyd Raeburn.  UniversИздательство: Louisiana State University Press, 2007 г Мягкая обложка, 138 стр ISBN 0807132764 Язык: Английский.