"Sometimes it took them four hours to get to the cemetary. All the way they just swayed to the music and moaned. At the graveside they chanted questions, such as 'Did he ramble?' 'Did he gamble?' or 'Did he lead a good life until the police shot him down on St. James Street?' Then after the body was buried, they'd go back to town and all the way they'd swing. They just pulled the instruments apart. They played the hottest music in the world." - Wingy Manone (on funeral bands in New Orleans)
source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)
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Wingy Manone Quotes
"Would you believe it, all us New Orleans musicians like pretty music: you know, play the tune pretty and swing it right afterwards - in other words, kick it." - Wingy Manone
Wingy Manone Quotes
"I have no regrets and I've done everything in life I wanted to do... So if I go out today or tomorrow it doesn't make no difference. But while I'm alive I want to go on playing. I like to play, and if I couldn't I'd be a miserable old man." - Wingy Manone
