Download or read book Jazz on the River written by William Howland Kenney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jazz on the River' describes how musical entrepreneurs gave the music of New Orleans to mainstream America in the 1920s, by quite literally sending their musicians upstream, aboard riverboats that plied the Mississippi waterways every summer.