Recording information: 1924-1926.Unknown Contributor Role: Jelly Roll Morton.Player piano roll technology is much more versatile than most people -- even a surprising number of jazz specialists -- seem to realize or want to admit. The...
This CD, using Robert Parker's innovative enginnering, brings 16 of pianist Jelly Roll Morton's better Victor recordings to life. This is a good sampling of Morton's sessions although it is not recommended to completists. Highlights include...
Personnel includes: Jelly Roll Morton (piano, vocals), Paul Barnes (soprano saxophone), Paul "Stump" Evans, Walter Thomas (alto saxophone), Joe Garland, Joe Thomas (tenor saxophone), David Richards (trumpet), Kid Ory, Gerald Reeves, Geechie...
Tributee: Jelly Roll Morton.Personnel: Jim Turner (piano); Topsy Chapman (vocals).Audio Mixers: Fred Volger; Fred Vogler.Liner Note Author: Jim Turner .Recording information: Audiophile Recording Studios, New Orleans, LA (10/29/...
At one time, pianist Butch Thompson, via his exposure on the NPR radio show Prairie Home Companion, was the darling of both jazz and folk audiences. Here his interpretations of the music of Jelly Roll Morton, originally recorded in 1968 for...
The Dukes Of Dixieland: Tim Laughlin (clarinet); J.B. Scott (trumpet); Al Bartholow (trombone); Tom McDermott (piano); Bernie Attridge (bass); Richard Taylor (drums).Recorded live at Duke's Bourbon Street Nightclub and at Mahogony Hall, ...
The life of Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941) is reconsidered in this thoroughly researched biography. Beginning as a virtuoso piano player in the brothels of New Orleans, Morton revolutionized jazz by actually writing down his highly sophistic...
This fascinating 2001 reproduction of Jelly Roll Morton's original 1950s biography includes Morton's own colorful and often embroidered account of his life, as well as folklorist Alan Lomax's riveting account of his investigations into the ...
In studies of the life of Jelly Roll Morton, one of the more colorful figures in American jazz, a curious gap occurs during one four-year period of his life. Pastras, using Morton's diaries along with archived interviews, explores this here...
The acclaimed, definitive biography of the first jazz composer, based on newly discovered archival material. Jelly's Blues recounts the tumultuous life of Jelly Roll Morton (ca., 18851941). A virtuoso pianist with a larger-than-life persona...