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Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
Alan Lomax
updated version of 1950 classic biography
University of California Press
November 2001
Featuring: Jelly Roll Morton
368 pages ISBN: 0520225309 Trade Size (reprint)
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Non-Fiction Biography
When it appeared in 1950, this biography of
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton became an instant classic of
jazz literature. Now back in print and updated with a new
afterword by Lawrence Gushee, Mister Jelly Roll will
enchant a new generation of readers with the fascinating
story of one of the world's most influential composers of
jazz. Jelly Roll's voice spins out his life in something
close to song, each sentence rich with the sound and
atmosphere of the period in which Morton, and jazz,
exploded on the American and international scene. This
edition includes scores of Jelly Roll's own arrangements, a
discography and an updated bibliography, a chronology of
his compositions, a new genealogical tree of Jelly Roll's
forebears, and Alan Lomax's preface from the hard-to-find
1993 edition of this classic work. Lawrence Gushee's
afterword provides new factual information and reasserts
the importance of this work of African American biography
to the study of jazz and American culture.
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