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...stage of the Chamber Music Auditorium of the Library of Congress the oldtime pianist sat at the keyboard, facing an open microphone. "Mister Morton," said Alan Lomax, assistant curator of the Library's American Folk Song Archive, "how about the beginning? Tell about where you were born and how you got started . . . and maybe keep playing piano while you talk...
Famed Creole Pianist-Composer Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton (King Porter Stomp, Jelly Roll Blues, Alabama Bound), "the father of hot piano," talked and played almost every day for a month. Folklorist Lomax, co-author with his late father, John A. Lomax, of Folk Song U.S.A., etc., listened and recorded. What he heard (and later checked up on) adds up to more than mere reminiscent fodder for jazz fans. Mister Jelly Roll (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), published last week, is also the full-flavored story of a raucous, diamond-studded era of U.S. history, as seen and told by a mulatto...
...Field & Stream of the Air; a five-year contract with the New York Herald Tribune for a weekly background of the news, a spot newscast backed up by canned shots of locales and personalities; contracts with Elia Kazan and Cheryl Crawford for their Actors Studio, and with Folksinger Alan Lomax, Mystifier Joseph Dunninger...
Died. John Avery Lomax, 80, pioneer collector of U.S. folksongs; of a heart attack; in Greenville, Miss. Portly, amiable Lomax recognized American balladry as folk art, traveled through cow country and mining camps, saloons 'and prisons, discovered and recorded such classics as Home on the Range and Goodbye Old Paint...
Remembered by recordings such as "Lonesome Train," and Columbia Workshop broadcasts, the tall, lanky, blue-eyed singer has played his banjo and sung his songs for millions of people from coast to coast, with such other ballad "greats" as Doody Guthrie and Alan Lomax...