Gigs

[ghost of miles]

Found this used in a local bookstore the other day & put it on hold, since I'm such a geek for such aspects of jazz history:

Gigs: Jazz and the Cabaret Laws in New York City (After the Law)

by Paul Chevigny

From Library Journal

Chevigny, an attorney and former civil rights activist, recounts his successful efforts to repeal New York's "cabaret laws," which restricted jazz entertainment from 1926 to 1990. The laws limited where jazz could be played, as well as the sizes of the bands and the kinds of instruments used in bars and restaurants. Chevigny argued that the laws, ostensibly designed to control noise and traffic, discriminated against minority groups and denied musicians' First Amendment rights. Since the subject is entertainment law, the reading is technical, and will interest only specialists.

Anybody round these parts ever give it a read?