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1988 30 min. Color
This documentary film presents the Black Creole violinist/music publisher A.J. Piron and the musicians in his orchestra. As Piron is considered by many historians to represent that essential evolutionary link between ragtime and jazz, the program explores the origins of the Creole style and its enormous influence on jazz. Actual authorship of the composition, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is the mystery alluded to in the program's title.
Mystery Of The Purple Rose: Creole Jazz Pioneers
Peggy Scott Laborde, Director1988 30 min. Color
This documentary film presents the Black Creole violinist/music publisher A.J. Piron and the musicians in his orchestra. As Piron is considered by many historians to represent that essential evolutionary link between ragtime and jazz, the program explores the origins of the Creole style and its enormous influence on jazz. Actual authorship of the composition, "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is the mystery alluded to in the program's title.
