Mister Jelly Roll

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-12-19
Mått:140 x 210 x 23 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:367
Förlag:University of California Press
Medarbetare:Lawrence Gushee
ISBN:9780520225305

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Populärmusik inom Kultur
Tonsättare och låtskrivare inom Kultur
Biografi: konst och underhållning inom Biografier

Mer om författaren

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.

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"Alan Lomax has fashioned a biography that, for utter candor and spontaneity of utterance, rivals the self-revelations of Rousseau and Saint Augustine." - Chicago Tribune "You get a fresh idea of what was behind the development of the new music that said so many things to so many people. You see that jazz was actually a cultural transmission, as Mr. Lomax puts it, a 'wordless counterpoint of protest and pride.' No one with even the slightest feeling for the subject can afford to miss this book." - San Francisco Chronicle

Innehållsförteckning

Preface to the 1993 EditionPreface to the 1973 EditionPreludeLOUISIANA TOWNMy Folks Was All FrenchmansReally Tremendous SportsMoney in the TenderloinINTERLUDE ONE: The FamilySTORYVILLEWhere the Birth of Jazz Originated FromUptown-DowntownSweet, Soft, Plenty RhythmINTERLUDE TWO: The Boys in the BandsALABAMA BOUNDHalf-hand BigshotThose Battles of MusicThe Lion Broke Down the DoorJack the BearCan't Remember All Those TownsJelly Roll BluesI TOOK CALIFORNIAThe Cadillac in BloomDiamonds Pinned to My UnderwearMama NitaINTERLUDE THREE:Hello, Central, Give Me Doctor JazzTHE BITTERS WITH THE SWEETMabelRed Hot PepperIt Like to Broke My HeartTill the Butcher Cut Him DownAcknowledgmentsAppendix One: The TunesAppendix Two: The RecordsAfterwordby Lawrence GusheeSelect Discography and Bibliography