Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
"Lomax . . .  fashioned a biography that, for utter candor and  spontaneity of utterance, rivals the self-revelations of Rousseau and Saint  Augustine."  --Chicago Tribune"No one with even the slightest feeling for the subject can afford to  miss this book."  --San Francisco Chronicle