Mister Jelly Roll - Alan Lomax

Mister Jelly Roll

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

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
367 Seiten
2001
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-22530-5 (ISBN)
33,65 inkl. MwSt
A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers 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.

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

Preface to the 1993 Edition
Preface to the 1973 Edition
Prelude

LOUISIANA TOWN
My Folks Was All Frenchmans
Really Tremendous Sports
Money in the Tenderloin

INTERLUDE ONE: The Family

STORYVILLE
Where the Birth of Jazz Originated From
Uptown-Downtown
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
INTERLUDE TWO: 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 THREE:
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

Acknowledgments
Appendix One: The Tunes
Appendix Two: The Records
Afterword
by Lawrence Gushee
Select Discography and Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.12.2001
Nachwort Lawrence Gushee
Zusatzinfo 30 line illustrations, 19 music examples
Verlagsort Berkerley
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 408 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Jazz / Blues
ISBN-10 0-520-22530-9 / 0520225309
ISBN-13 978-0-520-22530-5 / 9780520225305
Zustand Neuware
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