Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930

Jelly Roll Morton - Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930

Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930
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Artist: Jelly Roll Morton
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Jsp Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Black Bottom Stomp
  2. Smoke-House Blues
  3. Chant
  4. Sidewalk Blues
  5. Dead Man Blues
  6. Steamboat Stomp
  7. Someday, Sweetheart
  8. Grandpa's Spells
  9. Original Jelly Roll Blues
  10. Doctor Jazz
  11. Cannonball Blues
  12. Hyena Stomp
  13. Billy Goat Stomp
  14. Wild Man Blues
  15. Jungle Blues
  16. Beale Street Blues
  17. Pearls
  18. Wolverine Blues
  19. Mr. Jelly Lord
Music CD 2
  1. Red Hot Pepper
  2. Deep Creek Blues
  3. Pep
  4. Seattle Hunch
  5. Frances [Fat Frances]
  6. Freakish
  7. Burnin' the Iceberg
  8. Courthouse Bump
  9. Pretty Lil
  10. Sweet Anita Mine
  11. New Orleans Bump [Monrovia]
  12. Down My Way
  13. Try Me Out
  14. Tank Town Bump
  15. Sweet Peter
  16. Jersey Joe
  17. Mississippi Mildred
  18. Mint Julep
  19. Smilin' the Blues Away
  20. Turtle Twist
  21. My Little Dixie Home
  22. That's Like It Ought to Be
Music CD 3
  1. Each Day
  2. If Someone Would Only Love Me
  3. That'll Never Do
  4. I'm Looking for a Little Bluebird
  5. Little Lawrence
  6. Harmony Blues
  7. Fussy Mabel
  8. Ponchartrain
  9. Oil Well
  10. Load of Coal
  11. Crazy Chords
  12. Primrose Stomp
  13. Low Gravy
  14. Strokin' Away
  15. Blue Blood Blues
  16. Mushmouth Shuffle
  17. Gambling Jack
  18. Fickle Fay Creep
Music CD 4
  1. Chant
  2. Sidewalk Blues
  3. Dead Man Blues
  4. Someday, Sweetheart
  5. Grandpa's Spells
  6. Original Jelly Roll Blues
  7. Cannonball Blues
  8. Hyena Stomp
  9. Billy Goat Stomp
  10. Wild Man Blues
  11. Jungle Blues
  12. Beale Street Blues
  13. Pearls
  14. Wolverine Blues
  15. Georgia Swing
  16. Kansas City Stomp
  17. Shoe Shiner's Drag
  18. Boogaboo
  19. Shreveport Stomp
  20. Mournful Serenade
Music CD 5
  1. Shreveport Stomp
  2. Seattle Hunch
  3. Freakish
  4. Burnin' the Iceberg
  5. Courthouse Bump
  6. Pretty Lil
  7. Sweet Anita Mine
  8. New Orleans Bump [Monrovia]
  9. Tank Town Bump
  10. Sweet Peter
  11. Jersey Joe
  12. Mississippi Mildred
  13. Each Day
  14. Oil Well
  15. Load of Coal
  16. Crazy Chords
  17. Primrose Stomp
  18. Strokin' Away
  19. Blue Blood Blues
  20. Gambling Jack

Music reviews of Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930

Music Review: An excellent basic Jelly Roll library
Rating: 5 Stars

Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's impact on the rise and sustaining value of Traditional Jazz is - at least to hear him tell it - entirely his own invention. Well, maybe not, but close enough. His licks are still being heard reverberating in Trad, and even throughout swing and folk music.

For a smorgasbord feast of his mature recordings, this set provides a rather quite stunning array. Transfer quality is pretty much just fine, and there's seemingly no end to the variety, even to the inclusion of several interesting alternate takes.

I'll admit to buying this whole set mainly to get the excellent presentation of just two tracks that I'd been birddogging for years, and was delighted to find that it now supplants a dog's breakfast of 78's, vinyls, cassettes and CD's that had piled up dangerously over the years.

Thanks to the Brits for a very nicely done collection.

Description of Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930

In both sound quality and price, England's JSP Records continues to put the American major labels to shame with their prewar jazz collections. Following superb multidisc releases of seminal recordings by Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt, JSP now offers this Jelly Roll Morton compendium, which includes all his Victor recordings from 1926 to 1930. Thanks to the work of remastering guru John R.T. Davies and a sinfully reasonable price, this five-disc collection far surpasses any U.S. release. The music is exuberant and evocative throughout, as Morton's substantial composing and arranging talents come into clear focus. He was able to maintain the joyous ensemble spirit of New Orleans jazz while continuing the music's evolution toward swing's sophistication. Focusing on Morton's Chicago prime, volume 1 is full of highlights, not just of this set, but of early jazz as a whole. Especially noteworthy is the trio date with the Dodds brothers, from June 1927, that yielded "The Pearls," "Wolverine Blues," and "Mr. Jelly Lord."

Volume 2 follows Morton to New York and features a few forceful piano solos, a strong session with trumpeter Red Allen and unsung clarinet player Albert Nicholas, plus a standout trio date with clarinetist Barney Bigard and drummer Zutty Singleton. Volume 3 is not as consistently brilliant, but offers some gems as well, including cuts with Nicholas and trumpeter Ward Pinkett on board from July 1930. The final two discs contain mostly alternative takes, but unfortunately, the masters of Morton's terrific New York session debut are for some reason buried at the end of disc four's alternates. It is, however, a tiny caveat considering the overall worth of this indispensable box. --Marc Greilsamer

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