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A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part One) posted in Features and Interviews August 26, 09Edited by Ted Gioia New Orleans does not rank in the top 50 cities in the US, when measured by population. It...
Contributors posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 28, 07Richard Abowitz: Richard Abowitz has written for literary periodicals such as The Kenyon Review, but he is best know ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Wolverine Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07The 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, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: The Pearls (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Morton 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, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
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...
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Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Mamie's Blues (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 29, 07“Mamie’s Blues” comes from a series of recordings Morton made for the General label, later acquired by Commodore, and...
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Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: King Porter Stomp (solo piano, 1939) (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07It’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: Jelly Roll Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Morton 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 ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Freakish (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 29, 07It 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: 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...
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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 ...
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Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Deep Creek (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Once 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: Creepy Feeling (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Morton always retained a pronounced aesthetic sense for the music he absorbed during his boyhood in New Orleans and h...
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Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Buddy Bolden's Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music October 29, 07Who was Buddy Bolden and why do we care what he said? Because Bolden was the trumpeter who, even in Morton’s estimati...
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Jelly Roll Morton, artwork by Suzanne Cerny It’s evening in Washington, D.C., and the ...
THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...
Knife Fight Breaks Out Over Sun Ra Review posted in The Jazz.com Blog January 17, 08Well maybe not a real knife fight. This is the Internet, after all, and the bloodshed is only virtual. But if th...
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...
Jazz.com is One Year Old Today posted in The Jazz.com Blog December 09, 08Today jazz.com celebrates its first birthday. And what a whirlwind year it has been! A team of more than 50 writer...
The Best of the Dozens posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 26, 09Today jazz.com publishes the latest installment of its regular feature The Dozens. This article, written by S. Victo...
A History of New Orleans Music in 100 Tracks (Part Two) posted in Features and Interviews September 02, 09Edited by Ted Gioia Below is the second and final part of jazz.com's history of New Orleans music in 100 tracks. ...
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