One of the first important bassists of jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster was playing in bands around New Orleans as early as 1906. This autobiography, first published in 1971 and now lovingly reissued, is a valuable, entertaining, and sometimes risqu firsthand account of early New Orleans jazz by one of the pioneers of the string bass.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF POPS: FOSTER NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MAN
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF POPS: FOSTER NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MAN