[Dixielandjazz] Jellyroll reissues

[David Story]

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,1700399,00.html

Jelly Roll Morton famously insisted that he invented jazz, a contention 
accompanying plenty of other leaky claims in the life of this sometime 
pool-hustler, gambler, bartender and tailor. His name perhaps brings to mind 
crackly old discs and raucous trad bands at Sunday-lunchtime pubs, but 
Morton, the first great jazz composer, and a travelling piano star all over 
the US in the era before recordings, was a colossus of 20th century music. 
His contribution is deeply embedded in all kinds of contemporary sounds 80 
years after his heyday, and the recordings that most hauntingly confirm that 
have just had their most accessible and elegant makeover yet...

plenty more at the link above.

pardon me if this was previously posted.

David Story