NEW ORLEANS — Dean Ross believed the Clemson Corps band’s repertoire was stale. As cadet bandmaster, he accepted the duty to expand it. He could not search Spotify or swipe through the Google app. It ...
On July 5, 1904, this novel tells us, seven New Orleans musicians — the Buddy Bolden Band — gathered for a recording session. In those early days, they used wax cylinders attached to an Edison ...
Describing music in a book is a bit like trying to describe color to a blind person; it rarely goes well. The opening stretch of Nicholas Christopher’s latest novel Tiger Rag, however, paints a ...
"Tiger Rag" (The Dial Press), by Nicholas Christopher: Buddy Bolden is a jazz legend whose powerful, original sound at the turn of the last century was so enthralling that some now call him the first ...
When the Clemson Tigers take the field this weekend for their homecoming game against Wake Forest, they'll be cheered on by a 430-member band playing the high-energy fight song "Tiger Rag." The ...
Poet and novelist Christopher (Veronica) mixes fiction with jazz history in this delightful dual narrative. In July 1904, Charles “Buddy” Bolden, “the father of all jazz trumpeters,” is in New Orleans ...
UTD premieres its fight song, written to the tune of “Tiger Rag,” a famous jazz ballad produced in 1917 by the New Orleans group Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
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