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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Jelly Roll Morton; Jelly Roll Morton; Jelly Roll Morton; Jelly Roll Morton |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Alan Lomax |
ISBN: | 0520225309 9780520225305 |
OCLC Number: | 44972305 |
Notes: | 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. |
Description: | xxiii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Louisiana Town -- Interlude 1 The Family 27 -- Storyville -- Interlude 2 The Boys in the Bands 67 -- Alabama Bound -- I Took California -- Interlude 3 Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz 179 -- The Bitters with the Sweet. |
Other Titles: | Jelly Roll |
Responsibility: | Alan Lomax ; updated, with a new afterword by Lawrence Gushee ; drawings by David Stone Martin. |
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"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 Read more...
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