Drummer Zutty Singleton called him a railroad man, and he toured with the Number One Benbow circuit after his grandma Mimi Pechet turned him out "cuz he shouldn't' be around his sisters."
Drummer Zutty Singleton called him a railroad man, and he toured with the Number One Benbow circuit after his grandma Mimi Pechet turned him out "cuz he shouldn't' be around his sisters." Composer of Muddy Water Blues and Grandpa's Spells, he's described as "tall and chancy, lady's fancy, and red-hot stuff" in his namesake blues tune. Alan Lomax got him to record 12 LPs for the Library of Congress late in his career, mainly because he claimed to invent the music in Storyville whorehouses. FTP, name this pianist of Wolverine Blues, King Porter, and The Pearls, the first man to write down jazz music, whose nickname comes from an erotic motion and not an edible treat, "Jelly Roll."
Drummer Zutty Singleton called him a railroad man, and he toured with the Number One Benbow circuit after his grandma Mimi Pechet turned him out "cuz he shouldn't' be around his sisters."
Jelly Roll {Morton}; or Ferdinand Joseph {La Menthe}