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4 unusual facts about Storyville


Bourbon Street

This changed in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when the Storyville Red Light district was constructed on Basin Street adjacent to the French Quarter .

Minnie White

Minnie White was a Storyville brothel proprietor in the early part of the twentieth century.

Storyville

Storyville, New Orleans, a historic red light district of New Orleans, Louisiana

The Bucktown Five

The band's name is linked with New Orleans, as Bucktown was a Chicago neighborhood, but also the name of the settlement that grew up on the shore of Lake Ponchartrain after the close of Storyville.


Albert Burbank

Broadcast performances made with Kid Ory's band at San Francisco's Hangover Club have been issued on the Danish Storyville label, and some with trombonist, Bill Matthews appear on Southland.

Basin Street Blues

The Basin Street of the title refers to the main street of Storyville, the notorious red-light district of the early 20th-century New Orleans, just north of the French Quarter.

Chino 'Fats' Williams

Williams was best known for such films and television series as The Terminator, Action Jackson, Road House, Rocky III, Weird Science, Iron Eagle, Storyville and Baretta.

Chris Barber

There Chris Albertson recorded several sides for the new Danish Storyville label, including some featuring only Sunshine, Donegan and Barber on double bass.

D.C. Rice

Gayle Dean Wardlow, "Rev. D. C. Rice - Gospel singer", in Storyville 23, June–July 1969.

Jazz at the College of the Pacific

Critic Nat Hentoff wrote on Down Beat magazine that the album "ranks with the Oberlin and Storyville sets as the best of Brubeck on record".

People in Stores

Playing with the likes of Mission of Burma, Wild Stares, Vacuumheads, CCCP-TV, V; and The Neats, PiS performed its own unique brand of original post-punk pop music in storied clubs around Boston such as the Underground, The Rat, Storyville, and The Channel.

Robert Macklin

Awarded a Commonwealth Writer's Fellowship, he returned to Australia in 1975 and wrote The Paper Castle (1978) and Juryman (1980), adapted by MGM to the film Storyville (1994) starring James Spader and Jason Robards.

Society of Saint Anne

Known for the very elaborate and beautiful costumes of its members, the core group gathers in the Bywater neighborhood of New Orleans each Mardi Gras morning, with the Storyville Stompers brass band providing the music.

Storyville Records

The band was recorded by Chris Albertson during its stay in Denmark and these performances—which constituted the label's first release of original material—remain in the Storyville catalogue.

Storyville Records is a large international record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark, specializing in jazz and blues music.

Storyville Records was founded in 1950 by Karl Emil Knudsen, a jazz record collector, then working for the Copenhagen telephone company.

Winnebago Man

A sixty-minute version of Winnebago Man was aired in the UK on BBC Four on August 30, 2010 as part of the Storyville series of documentaries.


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