Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
by Howard Reich, William Gaines
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Author: Howard Reich, William GainesEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-25
ISBN: 0306813505
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Book Review: Jazz Genius
Summary: 5 Stars
Jelly Roll Morton has gotten a "bad rap" through the years. After protesting loudly and justifiably about the terrible financial deals he was tricked into, seeing songs he had written stolen from him, he was dismissed as being a loud mouth complainer. He made some bad choices in his life, but he left a legacy of music we all still benefit from. The way he, and other black musicians, were virtually shut out of ASCAAP was wrong. You will wind up appreciating him, and cringing about the way he was mistreated.
Summary of Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material.Jelly's Blues recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "King Porter Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." However, by the late 1930s, he was nearly forgotten. In 1992, the death of an eccentric memorabilia collector led to the unearthing of a startling archive, revealing Morton to be a much more complex and passionate man than many realized. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Blues is a definitive biography, a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers.
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