TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments 3
Foreword by Frank Driggs 5
Chapter 1 Louisiana Colonization 9
Chapter 2 St. Tammany and Mandeville 17
Chapter 3 The Ladnier Family 23
Chapter 4 Childhood and Early Musical Life 31
Chapter 5 Early Chicago Days 1917-1921 39
Chapter 6 Professional Jobs and Life in Chicago 45
Chapter 7 Paramount’s King of Blues 61
Chapter 8 The First European Tour 83
Chapter 9 The Fletcher Henderson Days 111
Chapter 10 Job-Hopping in Europe 131
Chapter 11 With Noble Sissle 153
Chapter 12 Bechet and the Southern Tailor Shop 163
Chapter 13 Last Days with Panassié and Mezzrow 173
Chapter 14 Tommy Ladnier remembered 199
Discography 204
Index 211
Music index 215