{"product_id":"the-jazz-people-of-new-orleans-1","title":"The Jazz People of New Orleans","description":"Lee Friedlanders reputation is founded upon an enormous diversity of work: his photographs range from landscapes to portraits  from street scenes to nudes  from industrial sites to flowers. This new book reflects another of his passionate interests - music - especially the musicians of New Orleans whom he has been photographing since 1957. New Orleans  birthplace of jazz  was once home to such legends as Louis Armstrong and King Joe Oliver. Friedlander has photographed most of them  musicians like Manuel \"Fess\" Manetta  who was playing with bands before World War I and who once tried to teach Louis Armstrong to play with two trumpets at once. Here are Johnny St. Cyr  George \"Kid Sheik\" Cola  Sweet Emma Barrett  Isidore Barbarin and Roosevelt Sykes  blues singers and guitarists Robert Pete Williams and Snooks Eaglin. From the portraits we move out into the streets  to the marching bands like Young Tuxedo and Eureka  following Friedlanders eye to the edge of funerals until  finally  we are immersed in the rhythm of the city itself. Many of Friedlanders subjects are encountered in an afterword by Whitney Balliett  Americas foremost writer on jazz  who describes a visit he made to the city in the mid-sixties. The Jazz People of New Orleans is a remarkable testament  by a virtuoso photographer  to a city whose musical tradition is at the heart of American culture.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44653256802357,"sku":"ByrdShop_0679416382","price":99.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0679416382_3576033e-57d0-4187-a971-7cbdc3427f4e.jpg?v=1770333737","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-jazz-people-of-new-orleans-1","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}