Bibliography
“If you took everything Jelly Roll ever did, rolled it together, squeezed it, you’d come up with ‘Mamie’s Blues’…. [T]hat man is singing from his heart, and there ain’t nobody could have done it better.”
Jimmy Rushing, Blues singer
Books
Alan Lomax. Updated, with a New Forward by Lawrence Gushee. Mister Jelly Roll. The University of California Press. 2001.
Howard Reich & William Gaines. Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton. Da Capo Press. 2003.
Willam Russell. Oh Mr. Jelly: A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook. Jazz Media ApS. 1999.
Brian Rust. Jazz and Ragtime Records, 1897-1942. Main Spring Press. 2002.
William J. Schafer. The Original Jelly Roll Blues (The Story of Ferdinand Lamothe AKA Jelly Roll Morton, the Originator of Jazz, Stomps, and Blues). Flame Tree Publishing. 2008.
Dan Vernhettes and Bo Lindström. Jazz Puzzles. Jazzedit. 2021.
Web Sites
Doctor Jazz. Portraits from Jelly Roll’s New Orleans. “Mamie Desdunes”, by Peter Hanley. http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/portnewor.html
Mary Celina Mamie Desdunes Dugue, by Bill Edwards. http://ragpiano.com/comps/desdunes.shtml
Elijah Wald website. Old Friends: a Songobiography. Mamie’s Blues (219 Blues). Note: Thanks to Wald’s perusal of old New Orleans newspapers, we now know the story behind the loss of Mamie’s two fingers. https://www.elijahwald.com/songblog/mamies-blues/
Dissertations
Benjamin Matthew Barson. “Brassroots Democracy and the Birth of Jazz: Hearing the Counter-Plantation in Black Atlantic Sonar Culture, 1791-1920”. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. University of Pittsburgh. 2021.
Vic Hobson. “Reengaging Blues Narratives: Alan Lomax, Jelly Roll Morton, and W.C. Handy”. School of Music. University of East Anglia. 2008.
Sherrie Tucker. “A Feminist Perspective on New Orleans Jazz Women”. Center for Research, University of Kansas, and New Orleans Jazz National Historic Park. 2004.
