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290 NOTES 1. Betty Fussell, Raising Steaks: The Life and Times of American Beef (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 287. 2. John Berger, About Looking (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 15. 3. Terry Teachout, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2009). . A. J. Liebling, The Earl of Louisiana (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1961), 17. Long got out of Mandeville by firing the director of hospitals and hiring another who would do his bidding. 5. Louis Armstrong, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (Rpt., New York: Da Capo Press, 1986), 8. 6. Alan Lomax, Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz” (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1950), 25. 7. Quoted in Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life (New York: Broadway Books, 1997), 1. 8. Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter (New York: Vintage, 1996), 2. 9. Armstrong, Satchmo, 8. 10. “Louis Armstrong + The Jewish Family in New Orleans, LA, The Year of 1907,” in Louis Armstrong in His Own Words: Selected Writings, ed. Thomas Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 16. 11. In “Louis Armstrong + The Jewish Family. . . ,” he writes,“One day when I was on the wagon with Morris Karnofsky—we were on Rampart and Perdido Streets and we passed a Pawn Shop which had in its Window—an old tarnished beat up‘B’Flat Cornet. It only cost Five Dollars,”15. In Satchmo,Armstrong writes,“The first time I heard Sidney Bechet play that clarinet he stood me on my ear. . . . [Red] Allen must have known Bechet could play a lot of cornet, for he sent him into Jake Fink’s to 291 NOTES borrow a cornet from Bob Lyons, the famous bass player. Bechet joined the band and he made the whole parade, blowing like crazy,” 13. 12. “Louis Armstrong + The Jewish Family. . . ,” 13, 18. 13. Letter from Harry Latter to William Zechendorf, May 198. Latter & Blum archive. 1. Harnett Kane, Deep Delta Country (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 19), 86. 15. Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy (New York: Vintage, 198). 16. Myldred Masson Costa, trans., The Letters of Marie Madeleine Hachard, 1727–28 (New Orleans: Laborde Printing, 197), 3, 57. 17. William R. Stringfield, Le Pays des Fleurs Orangiers: A Genealogical Study of Creole Families of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 2010), passim. 18. Liebling, Earl of Louisiana, 167. 19. Ibid., 165. 20. Glen Jeansonne, Leander Perez: Boss of the Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi , 2006), 108. ...

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