His influences included Jelly Roll Morton, Tommy Dorsey and Dizzy Gillespie.

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Crumb have some 78s of Alan's for doing a picture of Jelly Roll Morton, but this is probably the only time something like this will happen.

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Spread paper towels across the counter with the dried greens and roll the entire bundle together, like a jelly roll, to hold lettuces in the fridge for up to a week.

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"Better Git It in Your Soul" is an extension of the gospel waltz "Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, " and "Jelly Roll" was originally "My Jelly Roll Soul" Mingus had recorded both a few months earlier for Atlantic Records.

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In the decade before World War II, he and his father, the famed folklorist and collector John Lomax, took several historic trips through the South collecting material while working for the Library of Congress, making the first recordings of Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell, and capturing other legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.

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Jelly Bean is also now available for the Galaxy Nexus phone by Samsung and will slowly roll out to some other Android devices.

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