Kansas City Stomp: Library Of Congress Recordings Vol. 1

Product description No Description Available. Genre: Blues Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 9-FEB-1994 Amazon.com Mr. Jelly Lord was long past his prime when Alan Lomax happened upon him in 1938, tending bar, playing piano and working as a cook at Washington, D.C.’s Jungle Inn. No longer the struttin’ dandy who had redefined jazz in the 1920s, Morton, having lost almost everything in the ’30s, had disappeared from the music scene completely. Bedraggled countenance aside, he still possessed a luminous soul and sharp memory. Here, on the first of the volumes of Lomax’s Library of Congress recordings, he goes about recounting (orally and instrumentally) the history, both his and the music’s–its roots, its evolution, and the distinctions between what was there when he showed up and how he changed it forever. An invaluable, moving document that amply illustrates the breadth and depth of Morton’s intellect. –David McGee