Storyville (New Orleans)

Storyville was a historic entertainment district of New Orleans.

History

His nickname was the quarter from the alderman Sidney Story, who had designed the laws that its 1897 inception enabled. With the establishment of the district according to the pattern of legalized red light district of North German and Dutch cities hoped the city council, to be able to control prostitution thriving better in the bustling port city. 1917 Storyville was closed by the federal authorities against the opposition of the city administration. The official order was justified, that prostitution should be prohibited in the vicinity of naval bases. In the 1940s, most of the buildings were torn down to make room for the Iberville public housing development. 1949 tried to jazz historian of the last brothel building to save, Lulu White's Mahogany Hall, which had been " Mahogany Hall Stomp " immortalized by, a jazz standard, which had been recorded by Louis Armstrong and others. This attempt failed, however, and today only remember three architectural remains of the old Storyville.

Jazz

Storyville is often described as the origin of jazz, although the new style of music was played in many places of the city. Many of the better establishments employed a pianist, sometimes a small band. Since 1898, also included in Storyville to each brothel a house pianist who was named professor. This welcomed guests and invited young, mostly African-American musicians from all over the city to play in a brothel.

Jelly Roll Morton, Tony Jackson, Clarence Williams, King Oliver and Manuel Perez were among the musicians who played every night here. Louis Armstrong delivered as a boy coals to one of the brothel and heard so many of the famous musicians.

The reason why many highly qualified African-American musicians played in Storyville, was also in a restoration phase in race relations, 30 years after the abolition of slavery as a result of the American Civil War. The stricter segregation meant that trained black musicians were limited in their performance opportunities and employment in the brothels was so very welcome.

Many of the musicians went after the closing story Villes in other large U.S. cities. A main destination was Chicago. This exodus was formed, inter alia, Basis of the development of the Chicago jazz, but also gave other jazz scenes throughout the United States and founded a new impetus they erst

Record Label

The district was named a model for the Danish jazz record label Storyville Records, and for up to 1965 existing jazz label of the same name by George Wein (who is also a Storyville Club in Boston had ). A variety of musicians and bands released recordings under this label.