Storyville

Storyville, New Orleans - Famously known as the red light district and what some consider the origin of jazz.....

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Tony Jackson were all inspired by the bands they listened to in Storyville's brothels and dance halls, especially Pete LaLa's Cabaret, where King Joe Oliver's horns nightly blew the house down.

E.J. Bellocq's pictures of Storyville's prostitutes: Ever so charming with a bit of Joel Peter Witkin.

Here's the jazzman's Hamlet: St. Louis Blues by Mr. Louis Armstrong