# Jelly’s Blues

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- Book: [Jelly’s Blues](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-reich/jellys-blues) ([Jelly’s Blues.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-reich/jellys-blues.md))
- Authors: [Howard Reich](https://www.bookquiver.com/howard-reich), [William Gaines](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-gaines)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-350-4
- Published: 2004-05-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Jelly's Blues recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as " King Porter Stomp" and " New Orleans Blues." However, by the late 1930s, he was nearly forgotten. In 1992, the death of an eccentric memorabilia collector led to the unearthing of a startling archive, revealing Morton to be a much more complex and passionate man than many realized. An especially immediate and visceral look into the jazz worlds of New Orleans and Chicago, Jelly's Blues is a definitive biography, a long overdue look at one of the twentieth century's most important composers.