Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West
by Phil Pastras
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Author: Phil PastrasEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-07-02
ISBN: 0520215230
Number of pages: 270
Publisher: University of California Press
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Book Review: Not a full picture but useful, especially for the specialist
Summary: 4 Stars
This would be a difficult book to understand for someone not already familiar with the life of Jelly Roll Morton. Focusing on the years Morton spent in California in the 1910s and 1930s, particularly at the beginning, the book focuses on how recent information on Jelly's life on the West Coast sheds new light's personal life on Morton and adds to consensus that despite harrowing conditions, illness that would become fatal, that in the late 1930s Morton was writing some very advanced music that was unfortunately neither recorded nor performed in his lifetime.
Be brave and muscle your way through the first part of this book which contains a bit more speculation than this reader would have preferred.
The book to start on Morton is _Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton_by Howard Reich
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