Mister Jelly Roll : The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz (2 Revised edition)

Since its first appearance in 1950 this book has become a classic of jazz literature.

Racy, candid and controversial, it is not only the biography of one of the great jazz musicians of all time, it is also the story of a new kind of music that rose out of America's Southland to become the music of the twentieth century.