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Thread #147444 Message #3417824
Posted By: Big Al Whittle
10-Oct-12 - 08:25 PM
Thread Name: My tribute to Jelly Roll Morton
Subject: RE: My tribute to Jelly Roll Morton
Yeh its good! Its got a New Orleans feel - but its more Allen Toussaint/Lee dorsey era that Jelly Roll Morton.
I was quite an alienated 16 year old. My chemistry teacher used to try and humanise me by talking about jazz to me. he was a trombonist. I lent him Eddie Condon's auto biography and he gave me Mr Jelly Roll by John Lomax.
I was trying to make sense of Ian Buchanan's guitar version of Winding Boy at the time.
I was very naive and young for my age in some respects - i don't think I even had much knowledge of the basic mechanics of sexual intercourse - so Jelly Rolls tales of playing Tales from the Vienna Woods to punters as they were shagging away behind a partition in a New orleans bordello - seemed exotic to me, rather than sordid.
It was very moving to hear his voice.
Thank you Will.