Phil Pastras. Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xx, 246 pp.
Author Phil Pastras opens his biographical study of legendary pianist Jelly Roll Morton with an epigram from poet Dylan Thomas-"Oh make me a mask"-and with that signal, Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West takes us on the road with trickster Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, a.k.a. Jel...
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Columbia University Libraries
2001-02-01
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| Series: | Current Musicology |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/currentmusicology/article/view/4890 |