"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?"
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.
New CD - Norrie Cox And His New Orleans Stompers
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.
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.
