The Inventor of Jazz Revisited

From: The Texas Observer | Date: September 12, 2003| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

Untangling the Legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Da Capo Press 288 pages, $26.

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and "Inventor of Jazz" University of California Press 368 pages, $16.95.

In 1938, Alan Lomax, a native of Austin, was "assistant in charge" of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress when he recorded on acetate disks the voic...

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