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"Original Jelly Roll Blues", usually shortened to and known as "Jelly Roll Blues", is an early jazz fox-trot composed by Jelly Roll Morton. He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, titled as it was originally copyrighted: "Original Jelly-Roll Blues".
Jelly Roll Morton - Tiger Rag Morton claimed to have written "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1905. Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (or Lemott), into the Creole community [ 9 ] in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans around 1890; he claimed to have been born in 1884 on his WWI draft registration card in 1918.
"Wolverine Blues" is an early jazz standard by Jelly Roll Morton with lyrics by the brothers Benjamin Franklin "Reb" Spikes and John Curry Spikes. He recorded it in Richmond , Indiana on 18 July 1923 along with " Kansas City Stomp " and " Grandpa's Spells ".
Some sources attribute the modern score to W. C. Handy, who later modified it into a song known as "Atlanta Blues". [5] He published "Atlanta Blues" in 1923, featuring lyrics credited to Dave Elman. [3] The first recording of the melody appears in Handy's band's 1917 performance of "Sweet Child", which was written by Stovall and Ewing. [3]
The set was originally released in a piano-shaped box and included a copy of Mister Jelly Roll, Lomax's biography about Morton. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The set also includes a PDF file including additional liner notes, complete transcriptions of the recorded dialogue and lyrics, additional unrecorded interviews and archival documents and photos.
The Rock was listening to Jelly Roll music when Spotify numbers said only 30,000 people were listening to Jelly Roll," the musician told ET back in June. "He's really been with me from the beginning.
Handy published his version with modified lyrics titled "Loveless Love". "St. James Infirmary Blues" is an American blues song and jazz standard of uncertain origin. Louis Armstrong made the song famous in his 1928 recording on which Don Redman was credited as composer; later releases gave the name Joe Primrose, a pseudonym of Irving Mills.
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