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Jelly's Blues

Author : Howard Reich
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0786741767
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Jelly's Blues written by Howard Reich and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans. A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "Kansas City Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." But by the late 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton was nearly forgotten as a visionary jazz composer. Instead, he was caricatured as a braggart, a hustler, and, worst of all, a has-been. He was ridiculed by the white popular press and robbed of due royalties by unscrupulous music publishers. His reputation at rock bottom, Jelly Roll Morton seemed destined to be remembered more as a flamboyant, diamond-toothed rounder than as the brilliant architect of that new American musical idiom: Jazz.In 1992, the death of a New Orleans memorabilia collector unearthed a startling archive. Here were unknown later compositions as well as correspondence, court and copyright records, all detailing Morton's struggle to salvage his reputation, recover lost royalties, and protect the publishing rights of black musicians. Morton was a much more complex and passionate man than many had realized, fiercely dedicated to his art and possessing an unwavering belief in his own genius, even as he toiled in poverty and obscurity. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Blues is the definitive biography of a jazz icon, and a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers.

How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596439637
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book How Jelly Roll Morton Invented Jazz written by Jonah Winter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans playing the piano in bars, then traveled the country as a jazz musician.

Mister Jelly Roll

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520225305
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Mister Jelly Roll written by Alan Lomax and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

Dead Man Blues

Author : Phil Pastras
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520929739
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Dead Man Blues written by Phil Pastras and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton sat at the piano in the Library of Congress in May of 1938 to begin his monumental series of interviews with Alan Lomax, he spoke of his years on the West Coast with the nostalgia of a man recalling a golden age, a lost Eden. He had arrived in Los Angeles more than twenty years earlier, but he recounted his losses as vividly as though they had occurred just recently. The greatest loss was his separation from Anita Gonzales, by his own account "the only woman I ever loved," to whom he left almost all of his royalties in his will. In Dead Man Blues, Phil Pastras sets the record straight on the two periods (1917-1923 and 1940-1941) that Jelly Roll Morton spent on the West Coast. In addition to rechecking sources, correcting mistakes in scholarly accounts, and situating eyewitness narratives within the histories of New Orleans or Los Angeles, Pastras offers a fresh interpretation of the life and work of Morton, one of the most important and influential early practitioners of jazz. Pastras's discovery of a previously unknown collection of memorabilia—including a 58-page scrapbook compiled by Morton himself—sheds new light on Morton's personal and artistic development, as well as on the crucial role played by Anita Gonzales. In a rich, fast-moving, and fascinating narrative, Pastras traces Morton's artistic development as a pianist, composer, and bandleader. Among many other topics, Pastras discusses the complexities of racial identity for Morton and his circle, his belief in voodoo, his relationships with women, his style of performance, and his roots in black musical traditions. Not only does Dead Man Blues restore to the historical record invaluable information about one of the great innovators of jazz, it also brings to life one of the most colorful and fascinating periods of musical transformation on the West Coast.

Jelly's Last Jam

Author : George C. Wolfe
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN 13 : 9781559360692
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Jelly's Last Jam written by George C. Wolfe and published by Theatre Communications Grou. This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.

Jelly Roll Morton

Author : William J. Schafer
Publisher : JG Press
ISBN 13 : 9781844513949
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Jelly Roll Morton written by William J. Schafer and published by JG Press. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-styled 'Originator of Jazz', Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton was a virtuoso pianist, composer and band leader. His many songs include "Wolverine Blues", "Shake It" and "King Porter Stomp". Now learn more about his life and work, and his true legacy, with the latest from a series of critical, biographically-based primers about the leading musicians and songwriters in Jazz. This work is a must for any Jelly Roll or Jazz enthusiast.

Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn

Author : Samuel Charters
Publisher : Marion Boyars
ISBN 13 : 9780714528977
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Jelly Roll Morton's Last Night at the Jungle Inn written by Samuel Charters and published by Marion Boyars. This book was released on 1994 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Charters, the eminent historian of jazz and the blues, evokes the character and spirit of the self-professed inventor of jazz. "Funny and moving."--The New Yorker*

"Oh, Mister Jelly"

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Mister Jelly Roll

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520022379
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Mister Jelly Roll written by Alan Lomax and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the jazz musician's career journey from Storyville to Broadway, showing the ways in which his unique compositions reflected the problems of America's poor

A Life in Jazz

Author : Danny Barker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349099368
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book A Life in Jazz written by Danny Barker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a musician who grew up in New Orleans, and later worked in New York with the major swing orchestras of Lucky Millinder and Cab Calloway, Barker is uniquely placed to give an authoritative but personal view of jazz history. In this book he discusses his life in music, from the children's 'spasm' bands of the seventh ward of New Orleans, through the experience of brass bands and jazz funerals involving his grandfather, Isidore Barbarin, to his early days on the road with the blues singer Little Brother Montgomery. Later he goes on to discuss New York, and the jazz scene he found there in 1930. His work with Jelly Roll Morton, as well as the lesser-known bands of Fess Williams and Albert Nicholas, is covered before a full account of his years with Millinder, Benny Carter and Calloway, including a description of Dizzy Gillespie's impact on jazz, is given. The final chapters discuss Barker's career from the late 1940s. Starting with the New York dixieland scene at Ryan's and Condon's he talks of his work with Wilbur de Paris, James P. Johnson and This is Jazz, before discussing his return to New Orleans and New Orleans Jazz Museum. A collection of Barker's photographs,

Jelly Roll

Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0375709894
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Jelly Roll written by Kevin Young and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this jaunty and intimate collection, Kevin Young invents a language as shimmying and comic, as low-down and high-hearted, as the music from which he draws inspiration. With titles such as “Stride Piano,” “Gutbucket,” and “Can-Can,” these poems have the sharp completeness of vocalized songs and follow a classic blues trajectory: praising and professing undying devotion (“To watch you walk / cross the room in your black / corduroys is to see / civilization start”), only to end up lamenting the loss of love (“No use driving / like rain, past / where you at”). As Young conquers the sorrow left on his doorstep, the poems broaden to embrace not just the wisdom that comes with heartbreak but the bittersweet wonder of triumphing over adversity at all. Sexy and tart, playfully blending an African American idiom with traditional lyric diction, Young’s voice is pure American: joyous in its individualism and singing of the self at its strongest.

Black Bottom Stomp

Author : David A. Jasen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135349355
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Black Bottom Stomp written by David A. Jasen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Bottom Stomp tells the compelling stories of the lives and times of nine seminal figures in American music history, including Scott Joplin, Louis Armstrong, and Jelly Roll Morton.

Jazz for Young People Curriculum

Author : Wynton Marsalis
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781931908061
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jazz for Young People Curriculum written by Wynton Marsalis and published by Alfred Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Subversive Sounds

Author : Charles B. Hersch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226328694
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Subversive Sounds written by Charles B. Hersch and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subversive Sounds probes New Orleans’s history, uncovering a web of racial interconnections and animosities that was instrumental to the creation of a vital American art form—jazz. Drawing on oral histories, police reports, newspaper accounts, and vintage recordings, Charles Hersch brings to vivid life the neighborhoods and nightspots where jazz was born. This volume shows how musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton, Nick La Rocca, and Louis Armstrong negotiated New Orleans’s complex racial rules to pursue their craft and how, in order to widen their audiences, they became fluent in a variety of musical traditions from diverse ethnic sources. These encounters with other music and races subverted their own racial identities and changed the way they played—a musical miscegenation that, in the shadow of Jim Crow, undermined the pursuit of racial purity and indelibly transformed American culture. “More than timely . . . Hersch orchestrates voices of musicians on both sides of the racial divide in underscoring how porous the music made the boundaries of race and class.”—New Orleans Times-Picayune

Mister Jelly Roll

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520225309
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Mister Jelly Roll written by Alan Lomax and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-12-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton, one of the world's most influential composers of jazz.

The Language of the Blues

Author : Debra Devi
Publisher : True Nature Books
ISBN 13 : 9781624071850
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book The Language of the Blues written by Debra Devi and published by True Nature Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive dictionary of blues lyrics invites listeners to interpret what they hear in blues songs and blues culture, including excerpts from original interviews with Dr. John, Bonnie Raitt, Hubert Sumlin, Buddy Guy, and many others.

Ernie K-Doe

Author : Ben Sandmel
Publisher : Louisiana Artists Biography
ISBN 13 : 9780917860607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Ernie K-Doe written by Ben Sandmel and published by Louisiana Artists Biography. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "May 1961, and one tune was sitting pretty atop both the R&B and pop charts. "Mother-in-Law" became the first hit by a New Orleans artist to achieve this feat?to rule black and white airwaves alike. Ernie K-Doe was only twenty-five years old, and his reign was just beginning. Born in New Orleans?s Charity Hospital, K-Doe came of age in a still-segregated South. He built his musical chops singing gospel in church, graduating to late-night gigs in clubs on the city?s backstreets. He practiced self-projection, reinvention, shedding his surname, Kador, for the radio-friendly tag K-Doe. He coined his own dialect, heavy on hyperbole, and created his own pantheon, placing himself front and center: "There have only been five great singers of rhythm & blues?Ernie K-Doe, James Brown, and Ernie K-Doe!" Decades after releasing his one-and-only chart-topper, he crowned himself Emperor of the Universe. A decade after his death, lovers of New Orleans music remain his loyal subjects." -- from publisher's website.