JOHN SZWED talks to Jazz Studies Online about Blues for New Orleans: Mardi Gras and America’s Creole Soul (co-authored with Roger D. Abrahams, Nick Spitzer, and Robert Farris Thompson; University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)*
Paula West performs with the George Mesterhazy Quartet at Miller Theatre, Columbia University, January 26, 2007.
Ada Smith was a singer who started a famous nightclub in Paris in the 1920s.This talk recounts the enormous cultural influence she wielded and restores the history of US expatriates who frequented herthe salon.
