Up From The Cradle Of Jazz - Softcover

This book is an intimate history of New Orleans music during the last 45 years.

Jason Berry s books include landmark investigations of the Catholic Church crisis, "Lead Us Not into Temptation" and "Vows of Silence." His film based on the latter book won 2008 Best TV Documentary at Mexico City s Docs D.F. Festival. He is the author of a novel, "Last of the Red Hot Poppas," and a play, "Earl Long in Purgatory," which won a Big Easy Award. He has received Guggenheim and Alicia Patterson Fellowships, and was an LEH Humanist of the Year. He writes the music column for New Orleans Magazine.

Jonathan Foose, a native Mississippian and longtime resident of Austin, Texas, has been instrumental in music production, song writing, and performance in the areas of jazz and blues. He also continues oral history exploration, and writing for journals and magazines. Foose is currently involved in the application of new technologies for archival preservation of aging sound recordings.
Tad Jones was an author, noted researcher and preservationist deeply involved in music history work. He worked as an instructor at University of New Orleans and had a long affiliation at William Ransom Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University. He conducted many interviews for the New Orleans Jazz Historical Park Collection, was a program coordinator for Satchmo SummerFest, and a consultant on several documentaries. He was working on a book about Louis Armstrong s years in New Orleans at the time of his death in 2007.