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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 [ 7 ] 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.
Pages in category "Jelly Roll Morton songs" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Grandpa's Spells; I.
"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".
Pages in category "Songs written by Jelly Roll Morton" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
In 1938, noted musicologist and Morton biographer Alan Lomax conducted a series of interviews with Morton at the Library of Congress. [1] Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe these recordings as Jelly Roll Morton's "virtual history of the birth pangs of jazz as it happened in the New Orleans of the turn of the century.
Kansas City Stomp" is a jazz standard by Jelly Roll Morton, first recorded in 1923. It has been described as "one of his (Morton's) happiest pieces". Morton was inspired in naming it after playing at a bar named "Kansas City Bar" in Tijuana. [1] It has nothing to do with Kansas City itself. [2] The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame ...
John Szwed notes that in "Black Bottom Stomp," "Morton practiced what he preached, managing to incorporate in one short piece the 'Spanish tinge,' stomps, breaks, stoptime, backbeat, two-beat, four-beat, a complete suspension of the rhythm section during the piano solo, riffs, rich variations of melody, and dynamics of volume, all of the elements of jazz as he understood it."
Grandpa's Spells" is an early jazz song by Jelly Roll Morton. He recorded it for Gennett Records, Richmond, Indiana (the Star Piano factory) on 18 July 1923 along with "Kansas City Stomp" and "Wolverine Blues". [1] It was released in 1924.