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Article: Jazz on the Road-Don Albert's Musical Life.(Book Review)
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- The Oral History Review
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- June 22, 2003
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JAZZ ON THE ROAD-DON ALBERT'S MUSICAL LIFE. By Christopher Wilkinson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001 302 pp. Hardbound $50.00; softbound $19.95.
Jazz on the Road transports readers into the very seedbed of American Jazz music and plants them in the life of a 1920s up-andcoming New Orleans-born musician named Dominique Albert. Christopher Wilkinson's book, Jazz on the Road, is yet another testimonial to the fact that many forgotten or overlooked gems of history lie waiting to be mined from American archives. Wilkinson's accidental discovery of Don Albert while conducting other research is a familiar story to many researchers Fortunately, Wilkinson ...