[Dixielandjazz] Jelly Roll Morton website updated with 6 items

Mike Meddings mike_meddings at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 3 13:39:02 PDT 2009


Hello all,

The Jelly Roll Morton website has been updated with 6 terrific articles and
items of great interest and historical value.

Brian Goggin's essay on Ezra C.A. Wickemeyer, the sound recording engineer
for Gennett Records, has been significantly updated.   This "must read"
article now includes some additional information and a rare photograph of
Ezra C.A. Wickemeyer (linked from the text).   Thanks to Rick Kennedy and
Mel Helmich.

Photograph of Ezra C. A. Wickemeyer's wrecked family home following gas
explosion.   Courtesy of Mel Helmich and Rick Kennedy.   Additional
information by Brian Goggin.

A terrific version of "Milenburg Joys" played by the "Yerba Buena Stompers"
: Recorded live at Bimbo's 365, San Francisco.   Courtesy of Leon Oakley.

Brian Goggin continues to chase Jelly Roll Morton's 1929 engagements on the
east coast.   This one is for a previously unknown event in Point Marion,
Pennsylvania from The Daily News Standard, dated 9th May 1929.

Music roll historian Robert Perry Brian sends an article titled, HOME OF THE
"BLUES" --- Mention of the Melrose Bros. and Jelly Roll Morton.   This is
from Presto : The American Music Trade Weekly, dated 10th November 1923.

Brian Goggin sends an article about Jelly Roll Morton at the Gallatin
Gardens, Uniontown, Pennsylvania from The Daily News Standard, dated 13th
May 1929.

To view all the above, please click on the URL below.   Hope you enjoy.

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

Musically yours.

Mike.

www.doctorjazz.co.uk



      



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