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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. University of Georgia Press [Published Date: 1986]. Soft cover, 285 pp. Reprint. Inscribed (personalized) and signed (first name only, "Jon") by Jonathan Foose on title page. In very good condition. Glossy black and white pictorial paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. Black and white illustrations. [From back cover] Up from the Cradle of Jazz is an intimate history of New Orleans music in the four decades since World War II, from Fats Domino to the eccentric piano genius Professor Longhair; from Irma Thomas, queen of the blues, to jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis; from smoky bars and nightclubs to the open air revelry of Mardi Gras. . . Jason Berry, an award-winning.journalist, is the author of Amazing Grace: With Charles Evers in Mississippi. Jonathan Foose, a musician and musical producer, coproduced, with Jason Berry, the television documentary Up from the Cradle of Jazz. Tad Jones is a researcher in residence at the William R. Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University, and an instructor at the University of New Orleans.