Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress

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1. Story
2. Over an extended series of sessions, Lomax records the New Orleans pianist and composer Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton playing and talking about the music of his youth. It is in these recordings that Morton sets out the "Spanish tinge" — the habanera and tresillo patterns he held to be indispensable to jazz — which is a practitioner's testimony that the Caribbean rhythmic strand was present in New Orleans music from the beginning rather than an imported later flavour.
3. Knowledge
4. New Orleans
5. Jazz
6. Alan Lomax
7. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
8. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
9. Connections
10. Alan Lomax
11. Jazz
12. New Orleans
13. American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
14. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
15. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
16. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
17. Muddy Waters is recorded at Stovall Farm
18. The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
19. Blues
20. New Orleans
21. Son cubano
22. The first jazz record is made
23. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
24. The Middle Passage
25. Congo Square, New Orleans
26. Jazz
27. Havana
28. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
29. The first jazz record is made
30. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
31. The Lomaxes record Lead Belly at Angola
32. Alan Lomax records Jelly Roll Morton at the Library of Congress
33. The American Folklife Center acquires the Alan Lomax Collection
34. Evidence
35. Morton drew Afro-Cuban rhythms including the tresillo and habanera into early jazz and called them collectively the "Spanish tinge", stating in his 1938 Library of Congress sessions that jazz required it; Cuban dance bands toured New Orleans and the danzón was a significant influence there. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to this Tulane resource together with related scholarship; no page was opened and no recording or transcript was consulted.
36. The Lomaxes met and recorded Lead Belly at Angola around 16–20 July 1933; Alan Lomax's subsequent collecting spanned more than sixty years and several continents, and included extended 1938 Library of Congress sessions with Jelly Roll Morton. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary attributed to the Association for Cultural Equity chronology; the chronology was not opened and no session log was consulted.