THE WINTER JAZZ DIARIES

The winter jazz Diaries

Typically these music was affiliated with once-a-year festivals, once the year's crop was harvested and several other days had been put aside for celebration. As late as 1861, a traveler in North Carolina observed dancers wearing costumes that bundled horned headdresses and cow tails and heard music provided by a sheepskin-coated "gumbo box", appar

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