Mister Jelly Roll; the fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz." By Alan Lomax. Drawings by David Stone Martin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002.

Contributor:

Martin, David Stone, illustrator.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Universal library ; 64.

Universal Library ; 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941.

Morton, Jelly Roll.

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941--Discography.

Jazz--Discography.

Jazz.

Genre:

Discographies.

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 318 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Grosset & Dunlap, [1950]

Contents:

Louisiana Town: My Folks was all Frenchmans; Really tremendous sports; Money in the Tenderloin; Interlude-The Family

Storyville: Where the birth of jazz originated from; Uptown-Downtown; Sweet, soft, plenty rhythm; Interlude-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-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; End matter.

Notes:

"By arrangement with Duell, Sloan and Pearce."--T.p. verso.

"Chronological list of Morton's compositions": pages 292-296. Discography: pages 297-318.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection is paperbound edition with 21 cm.

OCLC:

884669