http://www.amazon.com/Storyville-New-Orleans-Authentic-Illustrated/dp/0817344039#noop
Video above is Sweet Emma Barrett performing at Preservation Hall. She was also known as Sweet Emma The Bell Gal. If you watch the video you will see why.
Here is a link to a good article about 3 important men who kept Jazz Alive in New Orleans. Al Rose who wrote about Storyville and Larry Borenstein who started Preservation Hall in 1961. Somebody had to do it and he did. When Borenstein died he owned about half of the French Quarter. In 1965-1966 I used to see him sitting in his art gallery on Bourbon Street. He had found an artist who painted large canvases of Jazz musicians. The tourists loved them and bought them like the were French donuts or beignets.
Larry Borenstein is also the guy who found the glass negatives of E.J. Bellocq the famous photographer of Storyville. Borenstein sold them to Lee Friedlander who had them published in book form. The pictures also appear in Al Roses' book STORYVILLE published by The University of Alabama Press. The pictures inspired the movie PRETTY BABY starring Brooke Shields.
Here is some information on E.J. Bellocq.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Bellocq
And here is the article on Al Rose and Bill Russell and Larry Borenstein.
http://www.rexrose.com/alrose.htm
You can see many more of the photographs of E.J. Bellocq here:
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/B/bellocq/bellocq.html
Click on all the pictures to enlarge them.
