Jelly's Blues
Subtitle: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: May 25, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780306813504
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Jazz; Composers & Musicians - Rhythm & Blues; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Biography/Autobiography; People of Color; Biography & Autobiography-People of Color; Composers & Musicians - General; African American jazz musicians; Biography; Jazz musicians
First sentence: On a steamy September day in 1904-the Louisiana air far too thick for a Midwesterner's lungs-a soft-spoken twenty-year-old from Grand Rapids, Michigan, showed up for his first day of work and was stunned at what he heard.