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

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Alan Lomax Lawrence Gushee

Mister Jelly Roll

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

Alan Lomax, Lawrence Gushee

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University of California Press
19 December 2001

Jazz; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; Biography: arts & entertainment

"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."

By: Alan Lomax
Afterword by: Lawrence Gushee
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520225305
ISBN 10: 0520225309
Pages: 367
Publication Date: 19 December 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Lomax, with his father John A. Lomax, created the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress and published many anthologies, including American Ballads and Folk Songs and The Folk Songs of North America. Lomax produced the first albums of American folk song in 1939 and has edited more than a hundred recordings from all parts of the world. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1986. Lawrence Gushee is Professor Emeritus at the School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

Alan Lomax has fashioned a biography that, for utter candor and spontaneity of utterance, rivals the self-revelations of Rousseau and Saint Augustine. - Chicago Tribune You get a fresh idea of what was behind the development of the new music that said so many things to so many people. You see that jazz was actually a cultural transmission, as Mr. Lomax puts it, a 'wordless counterpoint of protest and pride.' No one with even the slightest feeling for the subject can afford to miss this book. - San Francisco Chronicle