“King Porter Stomp” and the Jazz Tradition by Jeffrey Magee

“…Toward the end of his life in May 1938, Ferdinand ‘Jelly Roll” Morton (1890-1941) walked into the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium sporting an expensive suit, a gold watch fob and rings, and a diamondstudded incisor (Lomax 1993:xvii). …”
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