Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
by Alan Lomax

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Author: Alan Lomax
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-05
ISBN: 0520225309
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: University of California Press

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Book Review: Such A Rare Talent
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is a great read for any age. What a gift this man was blessed with. It boggles my mind(without giving any spoilers)how this great talent could die virtually penniless and without the appreciation in his later years that he should have been given after all the contributions that he gave to music.
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Summary of Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"

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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