[Dixielandjazz] Rampart St

[Martin D. McKay]

He guys and girls.  Make life easy.  Go put "Rampart St" into Wikipedia.  It
may not be the very best reference in the world, but it's better than that.
It is "Rampart" street because it marked the North end of the old town and
there was literally a rampart there, to defend them city.  (Like Wall St in
New York which at one time was where the city wall stood.)

 

Louis Armstrong's statue is on N. Rampart at what was Congo Square

 

Eagle Saloon & Oddfellows Hall-19th century lodge building is perhaps the
most important surviving building from the early days of jazz, having been
the base for the famous "Eagle Band" and where Buddy Bolden
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden> , Freddie Keppard
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Keppard> , Buddie Petit
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddie_Petit> , Louis Armstrong
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong> , and many other early jazz
greats played.

The J & M Music Store and recording studio at the corner of Rampart and
Dumaine, where Cosimo Matassa <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_Matassa>
recorded such musical luminaries as Professor Longhair
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor_Longhair> , Champion Jack Dupree
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion_Jack_Dupree> , Big Joe Turner
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Turner> , Fats Domino
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fats_Domino> , and many others. Longhair's
anthem "Mardi Gras in New Orleans
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mardi_Gras_in_New_Orleans> " and Dupree's
version of "Frankie and Johnny
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_and_Johnny> " both mention the
intersection explicitly.

Enjoy     

Mart

Martin D. McKay, designated listener