Jelly's Blues The Life, Music, and Redemption

The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material

Howard Reich is the veteran jazz critic of the Chicago Tribune and the winner of many awards. A longtime correspondent for Downbeat magazine, he is also the author, with William Gaines, of the critically acclaimed biography Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton. He lives in suburban Chicago. William Gaines retired from the Chicago Tribune in 2001 and is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He lives in Munster, Indiana.

Preface

xi

The District

1

(26)

Inventing Jelly Roll

27

(24)

The Proselytizer

51

(22)

Chicago Hustle

73

(26)

Thirty-fifth and Calumet

99

(32)

Free Fall

131

(34)

Laughingstock

165

(28)

A Battle Royal

193

(26)

Flee As a Bird to the Mountain

219

(14)

The Afterglow

233

(12)

Epilogue

245

(6)

Notes on Sources

251

(12)

Appendix A Compositions written by Ferdinand ``Jelly Roll'' Morton

263

(4)

Appendix B Annotated discography: Morton plays Morton

267

(4)

Appendix C Notes on Morton's elusive birth date

271

(4)

Index

275

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