Alan Lomax found & recorded Jelly Roll Morton in Washington D.C. in 1938, convincing him to play his old brothel songs from Storyville, New Orleans, which were so raunchy that some were not released by the Library of Congress until 67 years later in 2005.

“Listen. The greatest feeling I ever had in my life — with my clothes on — was when I first heard Diz and Bird together in St Louis, Missouri back in 1944.” – The opening line of Miles Davis’ Autobiography

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