Mister Jelly Roll

Mister Jelly Roll
Author: Alan Lomax
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2001-12-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0520225309

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A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

Mister Jelly Roll

Mister Jelly Roll
Author: Alan Lomax
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0520022378

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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

Oh Mister Jelly

 Oh  Mister Jelly
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1999
Genre: Jazz musicians
ISBN: UOM:39015042569999

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Mister Jelly Roll

Mister Jelly Roll
Author: Alan Lomax
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2001-12-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780520225305

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A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

Jelly s Blues

Jelly s Blues
Author: Howard Reich,William M. Gaines
Publsiher: Hachette+ORM
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2008-11-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780786741762

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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.

New Jazz Conceptions

New Jazz Conceptions
Author: Roger Fagge,Nicolas Pillai
Publsiher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781351973144

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New Jazz Conceptions: History, Theory, Practice is an edited collection that captures the cutting edge of British jazz studies in the early twenty-first century, highlighting the developing methodologies and growing interdisciplinary nature of the field. In particular, the collection breaks down barriers previously maintained between jazz historians, theorists and practitioners with an emphasis on interrogating binaries of national/local and professional/amateur. Each of these essays questions popular narratives of jazz, casting fresh light on the cultural processes and economic circumstances which create the music. Subjects covered include Duke Ellington’s relationship with the BBC, the impact of social media on jazz, a new view of the ban on visiting jazz musicians in interwar Britain, a study of Dave Brubeck as a transitional figure in the pages of Melody Maker and BBC2’s Jazz 625, the issue of ‘liveness’ in Columbia’s Ellington at Newport album, a musician and promoter's views of the relationship with audiences, a reflection on Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Eric Hobsbawm as jazz critics, a musician’s perspective on the oral and generational tradition of jazz in a British context, and a meditation on Alan Lomax’s Mr. Jelly Roll, and what it tells us about cultural memory and historical narratives of jazz.

Dead Man Blues

Dead Man Blues
Author: Phil Pastras
Publsiher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2001-07-02
Genre: Music
ISBN: 052092973X

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When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden. He had arrived in Los Angeles more than twenty years earlier, but he recounted his losses as vividly as though they had occurred just recently. The greatest loss was his separation from Anita Gonzales, by his own account "the only woman I ever loved," to whom he left almost all of his royalties in his will. In Dead Man Blues, Phil Pastras sets the record straight on the two periods (1917-1923 and 1940-1941) that Jelly Roll Morton spent on the West Coast. In addition to rechecking sources, correcting mistakes in scholarly accounts, and situating eyewitness narratives within the histories of New Orleans or Los Angeles, Pastras offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of Morton, one of the most important and influential early practitioners of jazz. Pastras's discovery of a previously unknown collection of memorabilia—including a 58-page scrapbook compiled by Morton himself—sheds new light on Morton's personal and artistic development, as well as on the crucial role played by Anita Gonzales. In a rich, fast-moving, and fascinating narrative, Pastras traces Morton's artistic development as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. Among many other topics, Pastras discusses the complexities of racial identity for Morton and his circle, his belief in voodoo, his relationships with women, his style of performance, and his roots in black musical traditions. Not only does Dead Man Blues restore to the historical record invaluable information about one of the great innovators of jazz, it also brings to life one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of musical transformation on the West Coast.

How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz

How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz
Author: Jonah Winter
Publsiher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781626724679

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In this unusual and inventive picture book that riffs on the language and rhythms of old New Orleans, noted picture book biographer Jonah Winter (Dizzy, Frida, You Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?) turns his focus to one of America's early jazz heroes in this perfectly pitched book about Jelly Roll Morton. Gorgeously illustrated by fine artist Keith Mallett, a newcomer to picture books, this biography will transport readers young and old to the musical, magical streets of New Orleans at the turn of the 20th century. A Neal Porter Book