 | The Complete Library of Congress Recordings Digital Music Album (Rounder) |
 | Birth Of The Hot - The Classic Chicago "Red Hot Peppers" Sessions 1926-27 Digital Music Album (RCA Bluebird) |
 | Greatest Hits Digital Music Album (RCA Victor) |
 | Last Sessions: The Complete General Recordings Digital Music Album (GRP Records) |
 | Jelly Roll Morton - Vol. V Digital Music Album (JSP Records) |
 | Jelly Roll Morton - Vol. III Digital Music Album (JSP Records) |
 | The Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax Digital Music Album (Rounder) |
| The Crave Digital Music Track (GRP Records) |
 | Jelly Roll Blues Digital Music Track (Essential Media Group) |
 | Jelly Roll Morton 1923/24 Digital Music Album (Fantasy Records) |
Jelly Roll Morton- Pretty Baby
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I'm a physical product kind of guy. Yet when Amazon offers a deal like the Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Jelly Roll Morton on MP3 for $19.98, my trigger finger gets itchy. I own much but not all of the hundreds of selections; this piece is from Volume 1. It's not a conventional recording- the hours of material include lots of interviews and outtakes. That's what makes it so compelling. "Pretty Baby," documented by Alan Lomax in 1938, is a representative snippet. Even if Morton didn't "invent jazz" as he claimed, this piece demonstrates his unique melding of ragtime, blues, minstrelsy and European classical music with a distinctly American sense of lust and braggadocio.
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Jelly Roll Morton - Hesitation Blues
..an American virtuoso pianist and composer who some call the first true composer of jazz music.
Jelly Roll Morton News
Bret Primack Presents: When Billy Taylor Met Ben Webster All About Jazz, PA - In the early 50s, Billy Taylor acted on television, playing Jelly Roll Morton in a docu-drama. Before that, Billy had performed in several Broadway shows, |
Taslimah Bey’s Ragtime Band JazzStage Productions, MI - Delight to the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin and New Orleans with accomplished pianist Bey and her quartet featuring trumpet star Dwight Adams. |
10 Moments of Jazz Genius (Pt. 1) All About Jazz, PA - Jelly Roll Morton's vocal on I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say. While Morton's piano playing is incomparable on any track, including this one, his “whiskey |
Live review - Jon Cleary’s Absolute Monster Recovery Show, Norwood Adelaide Independent Weekly, Australia - Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie ‘Flu”, before the seductive Cuban feel of his own sparkling, syncopated take on Jelly Roll Morton’s “The Crave”. |
 LAist | Red Cortez's Top 20 of 2008 LAist, CA - Matt of Delta Spirit raved about this when we were on tour with them and he really schooled me on Jelly Roll Morton through these Alan Lomax recordings |
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Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers discography. A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 3000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as ...
Jelly Roll Morton - New World Encyclopedia
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American ... Morton's nickname of "Jelly Roll" is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics ...
JELLY ROLL MORTON - DISC RECORDINGS
... it must be presumed that Jelly Roll Morton's first known recordings took place ... Jelly Roll Morton and his orchestra [R] ...
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allmusic, music reviews, new releases, artists biography ... the very first giants of jazz, Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm ...
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton is a seminal figure in the birth and development of jazz in ... July 10, 1941: Jelly Roll Morton died at the age of 50 in Los Angeles, CA. ...
