MISTER JELLY ROLL
Jelly Roll Morton, Inventor Of Jazz, Online Book by Alan Lomax
with Some sheet music & lyrics.
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The Boys in the Bands |
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Jelly Roll's piano made him a person of "some importance"
and "gained him admittance" at fifteen. The "jolly good fellows" who ran these palaces haggled for virgins, used them, then threw them into alleys where they were free to sit naked behind their crib doors available for twenty-five cents to any customer. "Fun" was a money-making word; the girls provided the "fun"; the madams, the pimps, the police, and the politicians collected the money. Heroin, sadism, assassination—anything went if you had the price. |
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