[Dixielandjazz] Jelly Roll Morton - Tony Jackson - Sandy Burns

Mike Meddings mike at monrovia.screaming.net
Thu Feb 6 09:19:36 PST 2003


Hello all,

The Jelly Roll Morton website has been updated tonight with six items of
outstanding importance and interest.

Alan Wallace sends the following 3 items from the Indianapolis Freeman
dated 23rd April 1904 :

BILLY KERSANDS' Big Colored Minstrels.

New Orleans Minstrels - mention of Scott Joplin.

Famous Billy Kersands Minstrels - mention of P. G. Lowery.

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Alan Wallace sends the following item from the Indianapolis Freeman dated
23rd July 1904 :

New Orleans Troubadours - mention of Tony Jackson and Albert Carroll.

The above items can be found in the "Ancestry and New Orleans Days, 1890 -
1905" section.

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Alan Wallace sends the following item from the Biloxi Daily Herald dated
16th June 1908 :

Court Cases - Laura Hunter (Jelly's godmother) and Ed Hunter.

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Alan Wallace and Larry Gushee send the following item from the Indianapolis
Freeman dated 1st April 1911 :

Peoples Theater, Houston, Texas - mention of Sandy Burns, Sam Davis, Anna
Mae Fritz.

The above items can be found in the "On the Road, 1905 - 1917"  section.

All items can be accessed from the UPDATES BOX for Jelly Roll Morton on
page :


http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/index.html


Musically yours

Mike

mike at monrovia.screaming.net
http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk






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