Mister Jelly Roll
Subtitle: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz"
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780520225305
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Jazz; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; d. 1941; United States; Jazz musicians; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Morton, Jelly Roll; Music / General; General; Biography; Morton, Jelly Roll,
First sentence: ... As I can understand, my folks were in the city of New Orleans long before the Louisiana Purchase, and all my folks came directly from the shores of France, that is across the world in the other world, and they landed in the new world years ago.