Zutty Singleton: "Havia tantas bandas em Nova Orleans. Mas a maioria d...

"Havia tantas bandas em Nova Orleans. Mas a maioria dos músicos tinha empregos do dia, você sabe - trades. Eles eram pedreiros e carpinteiros e fabricantes de charutos e estucadores. Alguns tinham pequenas empresas de suas lojas de carvão e madeira e vegetais. Alguns trabalharam na troca de algodão e alguns eram porteiros. Eles tiveram que trabalhar em outros negócios porque havia tantos músicos, tantas bandas. Foi a cidade mais musical do país."

--- Zutty Singleton

Versão em inglês

There were so many bands in New Orleans. But most of the musicians had day jobs, you know -- trades. They were bricklayers and carpenters and cigar makers and plasterers. Some had little businesses of their own -- coal and wood and vegetable stores. Some worked on the cotton exchange and some were porters. They had to work at other trades 'cause there were so many musicians, so many bands. It was the most musical town in the country.