[Dixielandjazz] Website update - 3 items of great historical interest

[Mike Meddings]

Hello all,

The website has been updated with 3 items of great historical interest to 
devotees of Jelly Roll Morton and J. Lawrence Cook.

Genealogist Peter Hanley sends an article on Sammy (Sam) Davis), who Jelly 
Roll recalled on the Library of Congress recordings as, "One of the greatest 
manipulators, I guess I've ever seen in the history of the world on a 
piano".   This accompanies Davis's WW1 draft registration card.

Prof. Lawrence Gushee and Dr. Charles Nolan, Archivist of the Archdiocese, 
send details of an entry from the Baptismal Register of St. Joseph's Church, 
Tulane Avenue, New Orleans for Ferdinand Joseph Lemott (Lamothe).   Also 
included is Jelly Roll's Certificate of Baptism.   Accompanying the above is 
a stunning photograph of St. Joseph's Church, courtesy of New Orleans 
historian Mark J. Plotkin Ph.D.

Prof. Brian Dolan and Prof. Alan Wallace send the 5th in a series of 
articles written by J. Lawrence Cook for the International Musician 
magazine, dated June 1941.   Mention of Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson and Art 
Tatum.   The article also includes scans of hand-written music examples by 
Cook.

The above items can be accessed from the grey UPDATED BOX at:

http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/

Future articles and WW1 draft registration cards will include : Zez Confrey, 
Joseph Lamb, Lester Melrose, Warren "Baby" Dodds, Fletcher Henderson, Lee S. 
Roberts and  Percy Wenrich.

Musically yours

Mike.

www.doctorjazz.co.uk/