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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A classic in the field of jazz and African-American studies! this is a collaborative biography! with a strong folkloric element (Jelly Roll having mastered the role of trickster)! by two of the greats in American popular music: Alan Lomax and (Ferdinand) Jelly Roll Morton! the great New Orleans musician and originator of jazz. Zusammenfassung A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the 1993 Edition Preface to the 1973 Edition Prelude LOUISIANA TOWN My Folks Was All Frenchmans Really Tremendous Sports Money in the Tenderloin INTERLUDE ONE: The Family STORYVILLE Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From Uptown-Downtown Sweet! Soft! Plenty Rhythm INTERLUDE TWO: The Boys in the Bands ALABAMA BOUND Half-hand Bigshot Those Battles of Music The Lion Broke Down the Door Jack the Bear Can't Remember All Those Towns Jelly Roll Blues I TOOK CALIFORNIA The Cadillac in Bloom Diamonds Pinned to My Underwear Mama Nita INTERLUDE THREE: Hello! Central! Give Me Doctor Jazz THE BITTERS WITH THE SWEET Mabel Red Hot Pepper It Like to Broke My Heart Till the Butcher Cut Him Down Acknowledgments Appendix One: The Tunes Appendix Two: The Records Afterword by Lawrence Gushee Select Discography and Bibliography ...
