Manuscript/Mixed Material Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec
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Image 1 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec American Folklife Center Library of Congress Alan Lomax Collection AFC 2004004 folder 030107 field work Washington DC 1938 transcriptions Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The People project at…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 2 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec Jellyroll No 3 Stew notes after 1640A 14 When I was six months old my godmother would take me from my mother and in absence of mother would pass me off for…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 3 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec Before 1652 A Steno notes 56 Jellyroll No 1 When I was a kid around seven or eight years old the first type of music I played in the line of ragtime…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 4 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 3 Keppard first greatest jazz trumpet player Eddie Vincent trombone They left the drummer in California His real name was Ollie Johnson a brother of Will he liked to be called by…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 5 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 4 Books in Chi section 59 up when they arrived back in Chicago because of arguments There was an argument all the time with Keppards big talk He was mostly kidding all…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 6 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 1901 60 Went to Biloxi Very sad at being put out Saw drama at Grand Theater by Baldwin Melville Stock Company Remember a part Give me back my dead daughters child That…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 7 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 2 They were playing a lot of honkytonk tunes A few songs like Youre Welcome as the Flowers in May Bird in a Gilded Cage Old Oaken Bucket The honkytonk tunes didnt…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 8 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 3 62 him and they killed him Lynching In Biloxi I came in view of a lynching I was sick in bed He was lynched for attacking a white girl Henry Lyder…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 9 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 4 63 a levee called levee camp people There is nothing to do on a levee except when the city is in danger Roustabouts would never dream of striking on river boats…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 10 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 5 64 second piece Got some money for the professor No money they was told to get out This is a high class place Collected about a dollar a piece Everybody had…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 11 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 65 Pals working at Brooklyn Cooperage Wanted to be with the bunch to be ambitious after leaving the strawberry farm This was at the age of 15 Made from 250 to 300…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 12 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 66 I was in the publishing business Too much work for me to do Hired Harrison Smith The son of a gun was jealous of me and wondered why I was making…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 13 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 3 67 He said Dont you hit him in here he will sue the building Everything was in both our names even the office That night he came back but I got…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 14 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 4 68 sense I found out she was helping this guy to do me up I told her about the conditions and how people wouldnt walk in the door She had some…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 15 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 5 69 have no shoes on and was doing a kind of dance and mumbling There would be a dance on a blanket and a feast They would have jambalaya rice with…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 16 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec In New York a Porto Rican woman told me that sombody done me some harm in New York and they done it all right She told me I would lose everything I…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 17 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 6 70 Beginning 4 Tick Chambers nonreading trumpet player 5 John Robichaux Creole Strictly all reading bunch One of the best bands in the country at that time Better than Buddy Bolden…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 18 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 7 71 hit the notes up in the air with those mutes It gave the instrument a different flavor He Oliver mad his first recording with Erskine Tate Recorded for Brunswick 7…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 19 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 8 72 King Oliver Cond He was called Bad Eyehad a cataract Heard him in 1909 when I was standing around the TwentyFives Heard music It was Bad Eye Everything stopped in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 20 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 9 73 Didi Chandler best drummer Player with Robichaux a while Could play any kind of drums Robichaux did high class work All the millionaires took him and he played in the…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 21 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 1907 There was a slump and they had some kind of draft checks around Drafts were as good as a gold dollar At this time working in small time sporting houses and…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 22 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 731 1907Met Walter Butler from out of Birmingham Also met Phillip Moore and Oscar Curry a good singlehanded entertainer When I returned to New Orleans I started hanging around the uptown district…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 23 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 11 75 Uncle tried to flirt with girl he saw on the side walk He said Dont you think it is rather late for you to be out Talked a while Then…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 24 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 12 76 I hit him with a pool ball and he jumped up like a rubber ball Had some balls waiting and aimed again and hit him Jumped on him and hit…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 25 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 13 77 of Payton instigator of a riot there Texas Payton was also a detective I heard Payton killed a solider to start the riot I dont know if that is true…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 26 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 14 78 They had some special dice Used to throw the dice to pass the catcher Would rub the dice to see if they were all right Helped them and made some…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 27 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec JR left N O in 1908 to Memphis Benny Frenchy Stayed in Memphis worked in theatre â in Buddy Magills legit pianist job â The Savoy for Fred A Barasso â in…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 28 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 4 79 Buster Willie Porter comedy singing dancing Laura Smith Stella Harris gt blues singers Mattie Dorsey Whitman of the Whitman sisters the organization that started in Atlanta that has produced some…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 29 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 1681 rollers at night spendin their money and sleepin where they could find a corner Gamblers my lawd watch this me Now I couldnt make enough out of my piano playing to…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 30 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 1682 down the street in my conservative stripes and not speaking to nobody Gals would all notice me Two hours later get me my nice tweed and come down the same way…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
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Image 31 of Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec 1683 the ivories Live in a little shanty Cheap calendar food babies piano liquor The whole thing puts him on the gang Transcribed and reviewed by volunteers participating in the By The…- Contributor: Lomax, Alan
- Date: 1938-01-01
About this Item
Title
- Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Washington, DC, 1938 May-Dec
Names
- Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
Created / Published
- 1938
Headings
- - Fieldwork
- - Transcripts
- - United States
Genre
- Transcripts
Notes
- - Jelly Roll Morton, photocopies of some transcriptions of LC recordings
Medium
- Manuscripts 8.5 x 14 in or smaller.
Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 2004/004: MS 03.01.07
Source Collection
- Alan Lomax collection (AFC 2004/004)
Repository
- American Folklife Center
Online Format
- online text
- image