Mister Jelly Roll

by Lomax, Alan

• ISBN13: 9780520225305
• ISBN10: 0520225309
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

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 to the 1993 Edition	vii
Preface to the 1973 Edition	xv
Prelude	xvii
Louisiana Town
My Folks Was All Frenchmans	3	(8)
Really Tremendous Sports	11	(11)
Money in the Tenderloin	22	(19)
The Family	27	(14)
Storyville
Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From	41	(8)
Uptown-Downtown	49	(12)
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm	61	(52)
The Boys in the Bands	67	(46)
Alabama Bound
Half-hand Bigshot	113	(7)
Those Battles of Music	120	(7)
The Lion Broke Down the Door	127	(7)
Jack the Bear	134	(8)
Can't Remember All Those Towns	142	(5)
Jelly Roll Blues	147	(12)
I Took California
The Cadillac in Bloom	159	(11)
Diamonds Pinned to My Underwear	170	(7)
Mama Nita	177	(24)
Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor Jazz	179	(22)
The Bitters with the Sweet
Mabel	201	(6)
Red Hot Pepper	207	(16)
It Like to Broke My Heart	223	(20)
Till the Butcher Cut Him Down	243	(20)
Acknowledgments	263	(1)
Appendix One: The Tunes	264	(31)
Appendix Two: The Records	295	(22)
Afterword	317	(24)
Lawrence Gushee
Select Discography and Bibliography	341