George Lewis Plays The Old Rugged Cross on Japanese TV, 1962

George Lewis "was one of the Jazz musicians who didn't leave New Orleans," either literally or figuratively, as the music degenerated into Bebop and Free Jazz*. Interestingly, it was the Japanese, not long after the war, who developed a love for the old-time American music, and preserved recordings that might have otherwise been lost.

*These were, perhaps ironically, my personal gateway drugs to the older, better music.