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Apex Blues: A Biography of Jimmie Noone Sr. and His Son, Jimmy Noone Jr.
Apex Blues: A Biography of Jimmie Noone Sr. and His Son, Jimmy Noone Jr.
Apex Blues: A Biography of Jimmie Noone Sr. and His Son, Jimmy Noone Jr.
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Apex Blues chronicles the extraordinary lives and musical legacies of two generation-spanning Jazz clarinet virtuosos: Jimmie Noone Sr. and his son Jimmy Noone Jr.

Jimmie Noone Sr. rose to fame in the 1910s New Orleans French Quarter jazz scene, forging his iconic ‘Sweet Lorraine’ style during the dawn of the genre. Later, his son Jimmy initially made waves as a San Diego local musician before feeling called to follow in his father’s footsteps. He set out to revive his dad’s New Orleans Jazz sound and mentorship.

As the author witnesses firsthand, Jimmy exceeds even his father’s musical heights through raw talent and relentless dedication to his craft. In his final days, he completes his quest: to honor Jazz history by propelling his father’s sound into the future. Jimmy cements the Noone legacy, ensuring the nation remembers what sublime Jazz can be.

Spanning generations, geographies, and evolutions of musical style, Apex Blues captures how two clarinet greats shepherded Jazz from regional obscurity into an acclaimed American art form.

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Release dateMar 28, 2024
ISBN9798891552531
Apex Blues: A Biography of Jimmie Noone Sr. and His Son, Jimmy Noone Jr.
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Cecile J. Picou

Cecile J. Picou was born in San Diego, California, and worked in the banking industry for over thirty-some years. She worked in a local newspaper as a journalist at the San Diego Voice and Viewpoint Newspaper for two years. She placed as a 2nd rounder for the Austin Film Festival on September 2022, and won as a quarterfinalist for a screenplay entitled The Jazz Age, in 2016. With the 8th Annual Story Pro’s screenplay contest, she won an award for Apex Blues. At the Colorado Film Awards, she won for a screenplay entitled The Otherworld of Fionn Mac Comhaill, and received honorable mention for a screenplay entitled Apex Blues, in 2013. At the Austin Film Festival, a screenplay entitled, American’s Famous Slave-Frederick Douglass, in September 2022.

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