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Jelly Roll Morton Vol. 1
Click on image to enlarge	In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton recorded several days' worth of spoken and musical memoirs for Alan Lomax at the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Four volumes focus on the musical portion of these memoirs, and for the first time the music is presented in its entirety -- several of these pieces had previously been available in shortened form only, and many of the blues songs that Morton recalled from his early days in New Orleans's Storyville District had never been previously released at all, because of their unbelievably raunchy lyrics. Best of all, the recordings are finally issued here at proper speed and pitch, and the annoying metallic resonances that marred earlier issues of this material are all but gone. Volume One collects pop tunes, opera excerpts, brass band tunes, New Orleans funeral pieces, ragtime, jazz numbers, and more: Morton ties together all the musical strains floating through New Orleans at the time that jazz was born. Jelly Roll Morton, piano, vocal, speech / Alan Lomax, speech 37 tracks on this CD include: I'm Alabama Bound, No. 1; I'm Alabama Bound, No. 2; King Porter Stomp, No. 1; You Can Have It, I Don't Want It; The Miserere, "straight," begun; The Miserere, "straight," concluded; Sammy Davis's Style; Pretty Baby; Tony Jackson's Naked Dance; Honky Tonk Blues; Levee Man Blues; Aaron Harris Blues; Game Kid Blues, begun; Game Kid Blues, concluded; Buddy Carter Rag; Steal Away and Nearer, My God, To Thee; Flee As the Bird to the Mountain; Oh! Didn't He Ramble, begun; Oh! Didn't He Ramble, concluded; Tiger Rag: Quadrille, begun; Tiger Rag: Quadrille, concluded; Panama, incomplete; Kansas City Stomp, begun; Kansas City Stomp, concluded; (Darktown) Strutters' Ball; Sweet Jazz Music; Salty Dog; Hesitating Blues; My Gal Sal; Randall's Tune; Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis tempo, begun; Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis tempo, concluded; Maple Leaf Rag, Morton style; The Miserere, "swung"; Low-Down Blues (New Orleans Blues) Price: $17.00 Availability: Usually ships in 3-4 business days. Product #: 21202011
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Jelly Roll Morton Vol. 1

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In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton recorded several days' worth of spoken and musical memoirs for Alan Lomax at the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Four volumes focus on the musical portion of these memoirs, and for the first time the music is presented in its entirety -- several of these pieces had previously been available in shortened form only, and many of the blues songs that Morton recalled from his early days in New Orleans's Storyville District had never been previously released at all, because of their unbelievably raunchy lyrics. Best of all, the recordings are finally issued here at proper speed and pitch, and the annoying metallic resonances that marred earlier issues of this material are all but gone. Volume One collects pop tunes, opera excerpts, brass band tunes, New Orleans funeral pieces, ragtime, jazz numbers, and more: Morton ties together all the musical strains floating through New Orleans at the time that jazz was born. Jelly Roll Morton, piano, vocal, speech / Alan Lomax, speech 37 tracks on this CD include: I'm Alabama Bound, No. 1; I'm Alabama Bound, No. 2; King Porter Stomp, No. 1; You Can Have It, I Don't Want It; The Miserere, "straight," begun; The Miserere, "straight," concluded; Sammy Davis's Style; Pretty Baby; Tony Jackson's Naked Dance; Honky Tonk Blues; Levee Man Blues; Aaron Harris Blues; Game Kid Blues, begun; Game Kid Blues, concluded; Buddy Carter Rag; Steal Away and Nearer, My God, To Thee; Flee As the Bird to the Mountain; Oh! Didn't He Ramble, begun; Oh! Didn't He Ramble, concluded; Tiger Rag: Quadrille, begun; Tiger Rag: Quadrille, concluded; Panama, incomplete; Kansas City Stomp, begun; Kansas City Stomp, concluded; (Darktown) Strutters' Ball; Sweet Jazz Music; Salty Dog; Hesitating Blues; My Gal Sal; Randall's Tune; Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis tempo, begun; Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis tempo, concluded; Maple Leaf Rag, Morton style; The Miserere, "swung"; Low-Down Blues (New Orleans Blues)

Price: $17.00

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Product #: 21202011

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