[78-L] Jelly Roll Morton on CBC!

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Tue Sep 21 12:09:29 PDT 2010


  On 9/20/2010 8:22 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
> Copied from one of my blues lists...FWIW...
> 7pm on radio two...
>
> Monday, September 20, 1010
> "Jelly Roll Morton: Making Vancouver"
>    It's a minor miracle
> that Jelly Roll made it up to Vancouver at all.
> He slept with a loaded revolver under his pillow,
> consorted with prostitutes and criminals, racked
> up gambling debts and he even survived a voodoo
> curse-at least for a while.

This seems that it would have made him eligible to run for Senator from 
Delaware, if we consider voodoo a form of witchcraft.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com




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