''Traditional New Orleans Jazz: Conversations with the Men Who Make the Music is a thoroughly absorbing and impressively informative collection of musicians' profiles by a seasoned and perceptive interviewer. An authority on early jazz and its makers, Thomas W. Jacobsen has provided incisive accounts of nearly twenty musicians, all of whom have been active into the 2000s, the careers of several reaching back to the 1920s through the '40s. An especially valuable, and moving, feature of this book is the author's updating of these interviews, which were done over the past fifteen years, to the post-Katrina era. There are splendid photographs of all the musicians. This volume is packed with history and should be read by all who are interested in both the evolution of the New Orleans sound and in jazz itself.'' --W. Royal Stokes, author of Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and CareersSource: Amazon.com