Music therapy

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‘Boy, git yo ass up from that piano. You hurting’ its feelings.’ - Jelly Roll Morton, c. 1930

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Introduction to Short Fiction, Purdue. The lead man in a blues band, during a set, tells his drummer his wife had just died. The drummer seems dubious but offers condolences. Later, at all night diner more details come out. She was cheating on him, her lover threw her out a window. Things like that. Everybody at the diner seems enthralled but had questions. He answered them with more details.

Terrible story for a college class? No, it was the lead man composing another blues song. Testing it out on his band members and his public.

Relevance: This would have been about the same time as Jelly was Rollin'.

Cool story. It’s got bugger all to to with Jelly Roll Morton, but still…

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