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Jelly Roll Morton: Steamboat Stomp (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 11, 07Morton succeeded with his early Victor recordings in having his compositions played with his original conception by a...
Jelly Roll Morton: Doctor Jazz (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Morton sometimes worked as an entertainer during his nomadic years, and fancied himself a great comic. But the sketch...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON
Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Black Bottom Stomp (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07This recording was added to the Library of Congress National Sound Registry in 2006, and it sums up in three minutes ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON
Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Earl "Fatha" Hines: Cavernism (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 12, 07Anyone who thinks Benny Goodman launched the Swing Era from the Palomar Ballroom in 1935 should explore "Cavernism," ...
Jabbo Smith: Jazz Battle (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 24, 07"Jabbo was as good as Louis [Armstrong] then," bassist Milt Hinton later remembered. "He was the Dizzy Gillespie of ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE TRUMPETERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ON A FIRST NAME BASIS
We all know about Dizzy & Miles, Louis & Wynton, Bix & Brownie. Some trumpeters are so famous, that even a single na...
Jelly Roll Morton: Original Jelly Roll Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Comparing Morton’s piano solo recording of the “Jelly Roll Blues” with this version by his Red Hot Peppers affords an...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: JELLY ROLL MORTON
Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Sidewalk Blues (Take 3) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 09According to Rex Stewart's fine book, Jazz Masters of the '30s, Omer Simeon was elsewhere for this track, and the you...
Jelly Roll Morton: Dead Man Blues (Take 1) (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 11, 09According to Rex Stewart's fine book, Jazz Masters of the '30s, Omer Simeon was elsewhere for this track, and the you...
Christopher, Evan posted in Encyclopedia March 18, 08Clarinetist Evan Christopher is a leading exponent of the early jazz tradition. Although he was born in 1974 in Long...
Morton, Jelly Roll (Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe) posted in Encyclopedia October 09, 08Pianist Jelly Roll Morton invented himself, even if he did not invent jazz, as he once claimed. Born Ferdinand Joseph...
Dodds, Johnny posted in Encyclopedia September 21, 08While never as famous as Louis Armstrong or Jelly Roll Morton, clarinetist Johnny Dodds played a key role in bringing...
Noone, Jimmie posted in Encyclopedia February 19, 09Jimmie Noone, amongst New Orleans' early clarinet kings, posessed the best technique and a pure, almost classical sou...
The Rise and Fall of the Clarinet (Part 2) posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 14, 09What happened to the clarinet? It once was the defining instrument of jazz, and in the hands of Benny Goodman, Artie...
Bigard, Barney (Albany Leon) posted in Encyclopedia March 20, 09Barney Bigard was not only Ellington's clarinetist of choice, he was a master of modern art in pure aesthetic terms. ...
King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopators: Farewell Blues (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music March 25, 09Despite all the acclaim for King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and its historic issue of 37 sides, this cover of the New ...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: KING OLIVER
Joseph "King" Oliver helped deliver polyphonic ensemble swing from the New Orleans backwater. Oliver's Creole Jaz...
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