Jon Pareles Quotes:
Ocupation: Journalist
Life: b. 1953
At Carnegie Hall the Preservation Hall Jazz Band showed how easily it could hop from era to era. It could work like a rhythm-and-blues horn section or a tightly arranged little big band if need be, but it could also switch back into the polyphonic glories of vintage New Orleans jazz, in which nearly every instrument seems to improvise around the tune at the same time.
topic: New Orleans, Vintage, Tunes, Jazz Band, Carnegie Hall, Sections, Rhythm And Blues
