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" Morton's quest for London's heart reveals how its daily life is rooted in a past that is closer and more familiar than we might think
Unless they'd done it on purpose
our lives may depend on its continuation
A true story of courage
not many murder victims die a decade after the crime
Jelly's Blues cornbread and poppy " Morton's quest for London'sJelly's Blues vividly recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (1890 1941), born Ferdinand Joseph Lamonthe to a large, extended family in New Orleans. A virtuoso pianist with a larger than life personality, he composed such influential early jazz pieces as "Kansas City Stomp" and "New Orleans Blues." But by the late 1930s, Jelly Roll Morton was nearly forgotten as a visionary jazz composer. Instead, he was caricatured as a braggart, a
