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Mister Jelly Roll : the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz"

Alan Lomax
A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.
Print Book, English, 2001
1st California pbk. ed View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2001
Biographies
xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
9780520225305, 0520225309
44972305
Preface to the 1993 Edition Preface to the 1973 Edition Prelude LOUISIANA TOWN My Folks Was All Frenchmans Really Tremendous Sports Money in the Tenderloin INTERLUDE ONE: The Family STORYVILLE Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From Uptown-Downtown Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm INTERLUDE TWO: The Boys in the Bands ALABAMA BOUND Half-hand Bigshot Those Battles of Music The Lion Broke Down the Door Jack the Bear Can't Remember All Those Towns Jelly Roll Blues I TOOK CALIFORNIA The Cadillac in Bloom Diamonds Pinned to My Underwear Mama Nita INTERLUDE THREE: Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz THE BITTERS WITH THE SWEET Mabel Red Hot Pepper It Like to Broke My Heart Till the Butcher Cut Him Down Acknowledgments Appendix One: The Tunes Appendix Two: The Records Afterword by Lawrence Gushee Select Discography and Bibliography
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1993
Included (numbered Rounder Records 11661-1888-2 Bk02) as accompanying material for the 8-CD set: Jelly Roll Morton : the complete Library of Congress recordings by Alan Lomax: Cambridge, Mass. : Rounder Records, 2005