NorrieCox.com
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Norrie Cox - Traditional New Orleans Jazz
Description
There's a saying that goes something like this: "Those guys aren't from the old school - they're from the school they had to tear down to build the old school". That, in a nutshell, sums up Norrie Cox and His New Orleans Stompers.
Not many jazzmen perform in the New Orleans style anymore. There was a time 40 or 50 (or even 30) years ago when giants walked the earth. They were throwbacks to an earlier era. Wooden Joe Nicholas, Kid Thomas Valentine, Jim Robinson, George Lewis, Punch Miller, Slow Drag Pavageau, George Guesnon, Cie Frazier and the list goes on and on. But they're gone now. Each and every one of them. But we are lucky that their spirit lives on. Not only in recordings, and books and articles, but in the people whose lives they touched. One common trait of many New Orleans jazzmen was to teach what they knew to the next generation coming up. It's how New Orleans jazz stayed alive and Norrie Cox and his band are part of it.
Norrie Cox was part of the great English trad-boom of the 50s. Ken Colyer led the pack and many others came along with him. Colyer stayed true his entire life to the New Orleans sound he heard there in 1953. Norrie knew Ken and even sat in with him. Perhaps Colyer's dedication to a non-commercial music rubbed off because Norrie has been one of its greatest proponents for decades.
Contact
Administrative:
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- Madison WI
- US 53725
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- 608-260-9484
Registrant:
- Mutt Productions
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- Waunakee WI
- US 53597
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