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" Jelly's blues : "
Howard Reich and William Gaines
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BL
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582394
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b411613
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| Main Entry
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Reich, Howard
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Jelly's blues : : the life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton /\ Howard Reich and William Gaines
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Da Capo,, c2003
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xiv, 288 p., [16] p. of plates :: ill., ports. ;; 24 cm
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0306812096
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: 9780306812095
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: 0306813505 (pbk.)
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: 9780306813504 (pbk.)
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"Annotated discography": p. 267-270
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-262) and index
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| Contents
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Preface -- 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 -- Epilogue -- Notes on sources -- Appendix A. Compositions written by Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton -- Appendix B. Annotated discography : Morton plays Morton -- Appendix C. Notes on Morton's elusive birth date -- Index
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Shares the virtually uncelebrated life of jazz composer Jelly Roll Morton, from his introduction into music, to his sharp decline in popularity, to the revival of his music following the discovery of his archive in 1992
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Morton, Jelly Roll,-1941
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Jazz musicians-- United States, Biography
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African American jazz musicians, Biography
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Gaines, William, (William C.),1933-
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Life, music, and redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
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