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* On a low-budget ($475,000), short (14 days) shooting schedule that almost passes for a miracle itself at a studio traditionally geared to costly, timeconsuming, star-studded production.
Another 25 million Americans were, or would be, crossing to Canada for the fishing, the scenery and the $1.10 dollar; thousands more, mostly Texans and Californians, were heading down Mexico's modern, gas-station-studded highways for the Old-World atmosphere, the bullfights, the silver jewelry and the cheap...
"Here," wrote Norcott, "huddled together at a counter under unearthly neon lights, livid-hued customers sip their grisly 'shakes' or study a menu card which offers a wide selection of chemical concoctions made from substances utterly foreign to the milk-giving cow. For as little (or as much...
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...
In brief, that was Jelly Roll's story. Bordello pianist ("professor"), pool-playing shark and pimp, he was in & out of trouble all his life. In his most glorious days, in the '20s, when such youngsters as Benny Goodman and Bix Beiderbecke gathered around to hear Jelly'...