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 Barnes & Noble While contemporary music has a visual crutch -- the advent of the music video -- to add imagery to the sound, the jazz age of the first half of the last century is mainly seen through the imagination. Actual footage of the seminal artists who molded and engineered the popular music is now hard to come by. New Orleans takes place in the early jazz era and features two true legends of the form: Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday in her only significant big-screen role. With a colorful backdrop of Bourbon Street and Storyville, New Orleans concerns the culture clash between emerging ragtime and "jass" and highbrow society, the latter keeping careful company with the Big Easys fast underground. Arturo De Cordova is Nick, the suave gambling maven who runs the jazz-joint Storyville. Dorothy Patrick plays Miralee, a young socialite who falls for the music, the scene, and Nick -- against the wishes of her imposing rich mother. Louis Armstrong and Woody Herman make appearances as themselves, while Billie Holiday plays Endie, maid to the society family, but Storyville singer by night; New Orleans is at its best in its half-dozen musical sequences with these stars. Satchmos ebullience and Billie Holidays iconic cool, beautifully contrasted in a duet, are the rewards of this portrait of a bygone age. Interested in the song lyrics? - Check out themostlyrics.com! Looking For A DVD? - Check out dvd-a-rama.com! |
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