Jazz Scrapbook: Bill Russell and Some Highly Musical Friends

The book offers cameo portraits of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bunk Johnson, Mahalia Jackson, Baby Dodds, Natty Dominique, and Fess Manetta - a roll call of early jazz greats, all born in New Orleans. Nine essays accompanied by rare period photographs give an intimate, backstage view of the jazz scene. The Historic New Orleans Collection is home to the William Russell Jazz Collection, available to the public at the Williams Research Center.