Jelly's blues : the life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton / Howard Reich and William Gaines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reich, Howard

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gaines, William, 1933-2016.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941.

Morton, Jelly Roll.

Jazz musicians--United States--Biography.

Jazz musicians.

African American jazz musicians.

United States.

African American jazz musicians--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Edition:

First DaCapo paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Da Capo, 2004.

Summary:

Annotation Jelly's Bluesrecounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "King Porter Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." However, by the late 1930s, he was nearly forgotten. In 1992, the death of an eccentric memorabilia collector led to the unearthing of a startling archive, revealing Morton to be a much more complex and passionate man than many realized. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Bluesis a definitive biography, a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers.

Contents:

The district

Inventing Jelly Roll

The proselytizer

Chicago hustle

Thirty-fifth and Calumet

Free fall

Laughingstock

A battle royal

Flee as a bird to the mountain

The afterglow.

Notes:

"Annotated discography": pages 267-270.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-262) and index.

ISBN:

0306813505

9780306813504

OCLC:

56483268