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Jelly Roll Morton: Original Jelly Roll Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Comparing Morton’s piano solo recording of the “Jelly Roll Blues” with this version by his Red Hot Peppers affords an...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Jelly Roll Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Morton believed that the piano should sound like an entire orchestra in every respect—ensemble, sections and soloists...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

New Orleans Rhythm Kings (with Jelly Roll Morton): Mr. Jelly Lord (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 18, 09

Jelly Roll Morton was quick to boast of his achievements. He was a crack shot with a gun; had a winning stroke with ...

Jelly Roll Morton: High Society (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music September 15, 09

Although Jelly Roll Morton is the leader of this recording, it is a rare instance where the pianist/composer is not t...

Jelly Roll Morton: Deep Creek (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Once he was in New York, Morton’s recording ensembles grew in size. Single instruments gave way to sections. “Deep Cr...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Doctor Jazz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Morton sometimes worked as an entertainer during his nomadic years, and fancied himself a great comic. But the sketch...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Steamboat Stomp (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07

Morton succeeded with his early Victor recordings in having his compositions played with his original conception by a...

Jelly Roll Morton: Black Bottom Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

This recording was added to the Library of Congress National Sound Registry in 2006, and it sums up in three minutes ...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Wolverine Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

The success of this tune may have helped convince Morton to devote all his energies to music. Morton claimed to have ...

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Jelly Roll Morton: Freakish (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

It is among the profoundest ironies in jazz that by the time Morton recorded titles like “Black Bottom Stomp” and “Dr...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: Grandpa's Spells (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This was recorded after “Keep Off the Grass,” but it was reportedly composed a decade earlier. (At any rate, Morton ...

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Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Jelly Roll Morton: The Pearls (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

Morton remarked on one occasion that “The Pearls” was one of the most difficult of his numbers to perform, and said t...

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Jelly Roll Morton: Dead Man Blues (Take 1) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

According to Rex Stewart's fine book, Jazz Masters of the '30s, Omer Simeon was elsewhere for this track, and the you...

Jelly Roll Morton: Jungle Blues (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music November 24, 07

Before becoming jazz's first great composer, Jelly Roll Morton spent years entertaining within the bizarre Black Mins...

Jelly Roll Morton: Sidewalk Blues (Take 3) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

According to Rex Stewart's fine book, Jazz Masters of the '30s, Omer Simeon was elsewhere for this track, and the you...

Jelly Roll Morton: King Porter Stomp (solo piano, 1939) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07

It’s difficult to imagine Jelly Roll Morton and the City of New York sitting down together over a glass of beer. Thei...

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   Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...

Jelly Roll Morton: New Orleans Blues (The Spanish Tinge) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music May 20, 09

New Orleans piano didn't start with Jelly Roll Morton, who paid his own respects to such earlier Storyville habitues ...

Jelly Roll Morton: The Crave (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 12, 09

"If you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes," Jelly Roll Morton famously asserted, "you will never be...

Jelly Roll Morton: Scat Song (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 09

Scat singing was not born when Louis Armstrong dropped the sheet music during a recording of “Heebie Jeebies”. Althou...

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Scat singing—improvised solos created by a vocalist using nonsense syllables for words—is one of the great parado...

Jelly Roll Morton: Michigan Water Blues (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Jelly Roll Morton was many things: pianist, composer, bandleader, bartender, bouncer, raconteur and self-proclaimed i...

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