Mister Jelly Roll

by Lomax, Alan; Martin, David Stone

• ISBN13: 9780679740643
• ISBN10: 0679740643
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-03-01
• Publisher: Pantheon Books

Summary

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 Biography

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 (1994) and Folk Songs of North America (1960). He produced the first albums of American folk song in 1939 and has edited more than a hundred recordings from all parts of the world. Lomax received the National Medal of Arts in 1986 Lawrence Gushee is Professor Emeritus at the School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Prelude	p. xvii
Louisiana Town	p. 1
My Folks Was All Frenchmans	p. 3
Really Tremendous Sports	p. 13
Money in the Tenderloin	p. 27
The Family	p. 33
Storyville	p. 49
Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From	p. 51
Uptown--Downtown	p. 61
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm	p. 76
The Boys in the Bands	p. 83
Alabama Bound	p. 133
A Half-hand Bigshot	p. 135
Those Battles of Music	p. 144
The Lion Broke Down the Door	p. 153
Jack the Bear	p. 162
Can't Remember All Those Towns	p. 172
Jelly Roll Blues	p. 179
I Took California	p. 191
The Cadillac in Bloom	p. 193
Diamonds Pinned to My Underwear	p. 206
Mama Nita	p. 215
Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz	p. 218
The Bitters With the Sweet	p. 241
Mabel	p. 243
Red Hot Pepper	p. 250
It Like to Broke My Heart	p. 268
Till the Butcher Cut Him Down	p. 292
Acknowledgments	p. 315
The Tunes	p. 317
The Records	p. 355
Discography and Bibliography	p. 388
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