Backwoods Jazz in the Twenties

By Rayond F. Meyer

In Meredith Wilson's The Music Man Professor Harold Hill and his "Seventy-Six Trombones" made their appearance in River City, Iowa, in the summer of 1912. It was also in the summer of 1912 when... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0934426198
• ISBN13: 9780934426190
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Southeast Missouri State University
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Good Old Days (for musicians)

Mr. Meyer's account of his life as a jazz musician in the early 1920's is an entertaining glimpse of what it was like in the glory days of jazz musicians. The writing style is somewhat rambling, but that understandable since the book is really Peg's recollections, strung together. In an era when musicians are routinely replaced by recorded performances and synthesizers, it is easy to envy Mr. Meyer's life, playing music on the Mississippi riverboats. This book is interesting, entertaining, and insightful.