[Dixielandjazz] Jelly Roll Morton/Dead man blues

[Mike]

I remember reading about some controversy that occurred about 10 years 
or so after his death. Some jazz musicians wanted to buy him a headstone 
for his grave and Anita strongly opposed it. It's been sometime ago that 
I read it, but I do remember that it was something like that. Jelly and 
Anita, according to what I read seemed to have a weird kind of relationship.

Mike




Anton Crouch wrote:
> Hello all
> 
> Well, blow me down - Fred S and Bill H have Phil Pastras' "Dead man blues"
> and haven't read it. Oh, dear   :-)  Luckily, Ivor J has bought it.
> 
> As one of the two or three people on this list who both have the book and
> have read it I can most strongly urge people to seek it out.
> 
> The material on Morton's early years in Los Angeles is fascinating socially
> and of great value historically. It fits well with Larry Gushee's work on
> the Original Creole Band and, together with that work, should lay to rest
> the inaccurate and misleading generalisation of the "jazz went up the river
> after the closure of Storyville" received opinion.
> 
> The material on the "final years" is quite poignant and the discussion of
> Morton's will is revelatory. How did "Sweet" Anita Gonzales manage to
> marginalise "Fussy" Mabel Bertrand? Did Anita actually write Jelly's will?
> Poor, poor Mabel.
> 
> All the best
> Anton
> 
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