"Welcome to my site dedicated to the preservation and performance of early New Orleans music. I welcome your comments and suggestions and thank you for your interest. Early jazz has been an important part of my life since I first heard it in 1948. Will it be part of yours?"

Kind regards,

Norrie Cox is known the world over for his committment to the preservation of early New Orleans Jazz as a performing art. He is a recording artist for Delmark Records with his New Orleans Stompers. He is one of the very few teachers of authentic New Orleans jazz and his teenage band "The Crescent City Stompers" have performed in the historic Preservation Hall. He has received many awards and citations for his volunteer work with young people. He also leads the Riverboat Ramblers, his Goodtime Jazz, and when available is clarinettist with Roy Rubinstein's Chicago Hot Six.

Be the very first to own the brand new CD from Norrie Cox & His New Orleans Stompers. Direct from the historic GHB label in New Orleans this great disc features these ledgendary jazz men at their very best.

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In 1963, trombonist Roy Rubinstein ventured to Louisiana and snapped these photos of the famous Eureka Brass Band in Algiers. Band members include Kid Thomas Valentine, Kid Sheik, Earl Humphrey, Willie Humphrey, Peter Bocage, Emanuel Paul and Wilbert Tillman.