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The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax
Label: Rounder Records
Released: 2005
Track listing:
CD1: The Story of
Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax
by Ken Dryden
Near the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton was bitter and in financial straits, feeling overlooked for his contributions as a jazz trailblazer while others got the credit. In 1938, folklorist Alan Lomax began documenting Morton's career and music by conducting private sessions with the pianist in a concert hall, transcribing his comments and performances ...
Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
by Jim Nelson
Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Howard Reich and William Gaines DaCapo Press ISBN: 0306812096 2003 Howard Reich and William Gaines make an eye-opening understatement in their preface to Jelly's Blues. Speaking about a treasure trove of long-lost correspondence hoarded by jazz collector ...
Cynthia Sayer
by Robert Spencer
Time was when every self-respecting jazz band had a banjoist. The legendary Johnny St. Cyr did duty in both Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and he was just the preeminent member of a hearty and considerable band. Listen to the banjo breaks on those great early sides, and you get ...
Wynton Marsalis: Mr. Jelly Lord: Standard Time Volume 6
by C. Michael Bailey
Volume Six Squared. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis' Mr. Jelly Lord is cleverly Volume Six in two different collections. It is Volume 6 in Marsalis' continuing survey of the American Canon of standard tunes and it is also Volume 6 in his ambitious Swinging into the Twenty-first Century series, slated for a total of eight volumes. That is ...
