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A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.
Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2001-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520225305
A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.
Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1973-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520022379
Traces the jazz musician's career journey from Storyville to Broadway, showing the ways in which his unique compositions reflected the problems of America's poor
Author : Howard Reich
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2008-11-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786741767
Jelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans. A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "Kansas City Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." But by the late 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton was nearly forgotten as a visionary jazz composer. Instead, he was caricatured as a braggart, a hustler, and, worst of all, a has-been. He was ridiculed by the white popular press and robbed of due royalties by unscrupulous music publishers. His reputation at rock bottom, Jelly Roll Morton seemed destined to be remembered more as a flamboyant, diamond-toothed rounder than as the brilliant architect of that new American musical idiom: Jazz.In 1992, the death of a New Orleans memorabilia collector unearthed a startling archive. Here were unknown later compositions as well as correspondence, court and copyright records, all detailing Morton's struggle to salvage his reputation, recover lost royalties, and protect the publishing rights of black musicians. Morton was a much more complex and passionate man than many had realized, fiercely dedicated to his art and possessing an unwavering belief in his own genius, even as he toiled in poverty and obscurity. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Blues is the definitive biography of a jazz icon, and a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers.
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Jazz musicians
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Author : Phil Pastras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 18,66 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520236874
"It is hard to say which makes for the more compelling narrative: the life of jazz great Jelly Roll Morton or the detective work that Phil Pastras undertook in putting together this engaging book. Dead Man Blues tells both these tales admirably, drawing on a treasure-trove of previously unknown material. It is both an important contribution to jazz scholarship and a fascinating piece of storytelling."—Ted Gioia, author of The History of Jazz and West Coast Jazz "Meticulously researched, including primary source material recently uncovered by the author, Dead Man Blues is not only a masterfully written, definitive account of Jelly Roll Morton's west coast years, but also a penetrating psychological and social study of the man and the forces that drove and shaped him."—Steve Isoardi, co-author of Central Avenue Sounds "A must-read for all jazz aficionados."—Gerald Wilson "One of the best books ever written about Jelly Roll Morton."—Gerald Wiggins, jazz pianist
Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1596439637
Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans playing the piano in bars, then traveled the country as a jazz musician.
Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher :
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 17,4 MB
Release : 1959
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Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 22,73 MB
Release : 1950
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Author : George C. Wolfe
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559360692
Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.
Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 21,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Jazz
ISBN : 9780863693182
This is a biography of the New Orleans jazz pianist, based on recordings which the author made at the Library of Congress Archive of America, with Jelly Roll Morton playing the piano and talking about himself.