The Baby Dodds Story by Dodds, [Warren] Baby; Gara, Larry - 1992

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Revised edition. Owner blind stamp on front flyleaf. 1992 Trade Paperback. xxi, 105 pp. "This lively autobiography, first published more than thirty years ago and long unavailable, is the result of a series of interviews Dodds taped with Larry Gara a few years before his death in 1959. With disarming candor Dodds recalls his remarkable music career, which spanned more than four decades and took him from dance halls in New Orleans' famed Storyville district to gigs on Mississippi riverboats to venues in Chicago and New York. Dodds performed and recorded with some of the most famous musicians of the time - King Oliver, Kid Ory, Bunk Johnson, Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and Sidney Bechet, among others - and his recollections of these men and the music they created add much to our knowledge of the history of jazz. Dodds also talks about his own style and philosophy of music, revealing himself as a serious and dedicated artists who placed a high value on craftsmanship, versatility, and originality and whose love of the world of jazz never waned.