00:00 – Introduces drummer Milford Dolliole; born in New Orleans in 1903 on Pauger Street which used to be Bourbon Street; professional musician but a mason by trade, more specifically a plasterer; began playing drums when he was a boy; drummers including his friend, Louis Barbarin; Brother, uncles, and father were also a musicians, Milford and his brother, who played trumpet, were in a jazz band together, The Original Clover Leaf Jazz Band 06:55 – Demonstration of drums, what he would play for a jazz funeral, which is a march or dirge rhythm. 08:45 – Demonstrates a second line rhythm 10:00 – Drum teacher, Louis Cottrell Sr.; first time he played professionally; tradition of dance halls in New Orleans; Perseverance Hall, a union lodge near where the WWOZ studios are now; San Gosento Hall, Economy Hall, Hopes Hall, New Hall, Artesian Hall 12:28 – the neighborhood where he was raised, used to be Bourbon Street, but now it becomes Pauger at Kerlerec, a research project Miner did about a house built in 1805 in Milford Dolliole’s neighborhood, original owner was a woman named Catherine Doussant who married a man named Dolliole, who is an ancestor of Dolliole and also a mason. 14:10 started playing in brass bands in the streets during the 1960’s; Now he plays with Young Tuxedo Brass Band, the Onward Brass Band.; musicians he’s admired and worked with: Placide Adams of the Onward Brass Band, Alfred Williams, Stanley Stevens (Williams’ grandson and pupil) 15:50 – Also played a lot at camps in Milnenburg near Lake Pontchartrain: Mama Lou’s, the Happyland; Miner and Dolliole met in 1968 with Dick Allen at Dolliole’s house party. She mentions the beautiful plasterwork in his den that his son, Maurice, made. 20:40 – Dolliole attended the Marigny School, between Urquhart and Villere. His mother and grandmother spoke creole style of French, which was the major language in his house growing up. His neighborhood is a very strong creole neighborhood; Chief Tootie Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas 23:33 – Dolliole demonstrates. New Orleans style of drumming taught by Cottrell 26:45 – Interview ends
