![]() There is a strutting quality to New Orleans jazz, as well as a dark and primal power that can be found in Jelly Roll Morton’s music. Well, ok, some songs were about reefer, but most of the rest really were about sex, or if not nominally about sex, it was an ever-present undercurrent. ![]() But over the ensuing years, I became more familiar with New Orleans music and early 20th Century American music in general, I realized it was true. I remember one day, probably over the dinner table, and seemingly out of nowhere, my dad said to me, “So you know, Jazz is basically all about sex.” Such a thought had never occurred to me, nor did it make much sense at the time, since my notion of jazz was mostly the abstracted bebop of New York.
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