Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton by Howard Reich, William M. Gaines

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton

Howard Reich, William M. Gaines

320 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction biography music challenging informative medium-paced
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Jelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans. A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential ea...

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