Wingy Manone Quotes

"Sometimes it took them four hours to get to the cemetary. All the way they just swayed to the music and moaned. At the graveside they chanted questions, such as 'Did he ramble?' 'Did he gamble?' or 'Did he lead a good life until the police shot him down on St. James Street?' Then after the body was buried, they'd go back to town and all the way they'd swing. They just pulled the instruments apart. They played the hottest music in the world." - Wingy Manone (on funeral bands in New Orleans)

source: 'Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It' (Nat Shapiro, First published 1966)