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The All-American Music
The Park’s mission is to preserve information about New Orleans' participation in the development of jazz. To spotlight the significant efforts of early New Orleans players, the National Park Service has prduced this unique pair of CDs featuring a specially assembled group, the Arrowhead Jazz Band, named, appropriately, after the Park Service's familiar logo. Soon these CDs
will be available in our bookstore and on-line
Samples from Volume One
 The
tunes played by the Arrowhead Jazz Band on Volume Two are based on
material recorded in New Orleans years after portable equipment was
brought to preserve the sounds of the "Early Years." Ironically,
as the "Revival" period was developing in the '40s, recording
facilities were available locally, but they did not allow black musicians
in the studios. As a result, most of the masterful records that inspired
this program were made on portable eqipument in store rooms, radio
stations, dance halls, etc. The musicians who recorded these historically
important recordings were born before or near the turn of the twentieth
century and enjoyed careers that significantly contributed to the
development of New Orleans jazz.
Samples
from Volume Two
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On
Volume One, the Arrowhead Jazz Band plays 14 tunes that were originally
recorded in New Orleans by New Orleans jazzmen during the jazz era.
These hometown recordings are important aural documentations of
the sounds heard in the city's parks, cafes, dance halls, cabarets,
barrel houses, and hotel ballrooms.
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