[Dixielandjazz] Alan Lomax

[Louis Lince]

Well said Brian. We mustn't forget the excellent movies that Aln Lomax wrote
and produced, especially "Feet don't fail me now" covering brass band music
and one whose title escapes me discussing Cajun music.

Louis
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Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Alan Lomax


> By recording Jelly Roll Morton for the Library of Congress,  Alan Lomax
will
> always be famous as an important contributor to the story of jazz in those
> early days, before the first jazz recordings in 1917.   Of Course, Jelly
> Roll was only one of his projects but he was surely the most significant
> one.
>
> He had the great knack of opening up his subject and he really got Jelly
> Roll talking about those early jazz days around the turn of the century.
It
> is captured beautifully in Lomax's book  "Mister Jelly Roll" as well as on
> those  famous LOC recordings.  Jelly Roll's dialogue (the man was a poet!)
> brings those towering characters to life: Buddy Bolden; Keppard, Tony
> Jackson, Perez, Robichaux; Buddy Petit etc.
>
> We owe Lomax a great deal.
>
>
>
> Brian Towers,
> Hot Five Jazzmakers, Toronto, Canada
> Band web site:            http://hotfivejazz.tripod.com
>
>
>
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