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

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.

ISBN:	9780520225305
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	19 Dec 2001
DEWEY:	781.65092
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	344
Weight:	444g
Height:	209mm
Width:	141mm
Spine width:	23mm

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