The Complete Library of Congress Recordings

Jelly Roll Morton - The Complete Library of Congress Recordings

The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
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Artist: Jelly Roll Morton
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Enhanced, Explicit Lyrics, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Music Label: Rounder Records
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I'm Alabama Bound
  2. Time in Mobile
  3. King Porter Stomp
  4. The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
  5. Jelly Roll's Background
  6. Music Lessons
  7. Miserere
  8. The Stomping Grounds
  9. The Style of Sammy Davis
  10. Tony Jackson was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium
  11. Poor Alfred Wilson
  12. Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun
  13. New Orleans was a Free and Easy Place
  14. The Story of Aaron Harris
Music CD 2
  1. The Story of Aaron Harris, continued / Aaron Harris Blues
  2. Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot
  3. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles
  4. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot, continued
  5. Game Kid Blues
  6. New Orleans Funerals
  7. Funeral Marches
  8. Oh! Didn't He Ramble
  9. Tiger Rag, third, fourth, and fifth strains
  10. Tiger Rag / Panama
  11. The Right Tempo is the Accurate Tempo
  12. Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp
  13. Kansas City Stomp, continued
  14. Slow Swing and "Sweet Jazz Music"
  15. Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law
  16. Hestitation Blues
Music CD 3
  1. My Gal Sal
  2. The St. Louis Scene
  3. Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans style
  4. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis
  5. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis, continued
  6. New Orleans Blues
  7. Winin' Boy Blues
  8. Winin' Boy Blues, continued
  9. The Anamule Dance
  10. The Anamule Dance, continued
  11. The Great Buddy Bolden / Buddy Bilden's Blues
  12. The Great Buddy Bolden, continued
  13. Mr. Jelly Lord
  14. How Jelly Roll Got His Name
  15. Original Jelly Roll Blues
  16. Honky Tonk Blues
Music CD 4
  1. Real Tough Boys
  2. Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate
  3. Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas
  4. See See Rider
  5. Parading with the Broadway Swells
  6. Fights and Weapons
  7. Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs
  8. Jelly's Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale
  9. Jelly's Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena
  10. Jelly's Travels: From Helena to Memphis
  11. In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy
  12. Benny Frenchy's Tune, continued
  13. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor
  14. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, continued
  15. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, part 3
  16. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, concluded
Music CD 5
  1. The Dirty Dozen
  2. The Murder Ballad, part 1
  3. The Murder Ballad, part 2
  4. The Murder Ballad, part 3
  5. The Murder Ballad, part 4
  6. The Murder Ballad, part 5
  7. The Murder Ballad, part 6
  8. The Murder Ballad, part 7
  9. Fickle Fay Creep
  10. Jungle Blues
  11. King Porter Stomp
  12. Sweet Peter
  13. Hyena Stomp
  14. Wolverine Blues, begun
  15. Wolverine Blues, concluded
  16. State And Madison
  17. The Pearls, begun
  18. The Pearls, concluded
Music CD 6
  1. Bert Williams
  2. Freakish
  3. Pep
  4. The Georgia Skin Game
  5. The Georgia Skin Game, continued
  6. The Georgia Skin Game, conclusion
  7. Ungai Hai
  8. New Orleans Blues
  9. The Spanish Tinge
  10. Improving Spanish Tempos
  11. Creepy Feeling, concluded
  12. The Crave
  13. Mamanita
  14. C'?tait N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc
  15. Spanish Swat
  16. Ain't Misbehavin'
  17. I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff
  18. Michigan Water Blues
Music CD 7
  1. Winin' Boy Blues
  2. Winin' Boy Blues, continued
  3. Boogie Woogie Blues
  4. Buddy Bertrand's Blues, continued / Mamie's Blues
  5. When the Hot Stuff Came In
  6. The First Hot Arrangements
  7. The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Caf?
  8. At the Cadillac Caf?, Los Angeles
  9. Little Liza Jane, continued / On the West Coast
  10. In the Publishing Business
Music CD 8
  1. Original Jelly Roll Blues
  2. Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District
  3. Hot Bands and Creole Tunes
  4. Eh, La Bas
  5. Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element
  6. Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden
  7. High Society
  8. Sporting Life Costumes
  9. Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician
  10. Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting that Drive
  11. Jelly Roll's Compositions
  12. How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar
  13. Guitar Blues
  14. Bad Men and Pimps
  15. The Story of the Coon Blues
  16. Coon Blues
  17. Jazz is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades
  18. Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District
  19. The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" - Improvising and Reading Music
  20. Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best

Music reviews of The Complete Library of Congress Recordings

Music Review: A candid glimpse into musical history
Rating: 5 Stars

I had downloaded a few tracks from iTunes and decided that I wanted more. I wasn't disappointed. This is a treasure trove of first-hand accounts from a great and famous musician of what his life was like. The style and tone of Jelly's speech as much as the stories he told really helped paint a picture of being a musician and just being around in the early 1900s. I wish there were more recorded accounts like this--it's sort of like spending a weekend with my grandpa listening to what it was like for him as a youth. There's a lot of great music here too, and language that will offend many, but it's a rough-and-tumble account of rough-and -tumble times. I couldn't recommend these CDs highly enough to anyone interested in the formative years of jazz, when ragtime was still hot, and New Orleans was an incubator for music that eventually swept the nation. I've listened to the entire set several times, and still listen to parts of it every week.

Description of The Complete Library of Congress Recordings

The stories and songs on these recordings are a document of the big bang of jazz music at the dawn of the 20th Century. New Orleans composer, pianist and pool shark Jelly Roll Morton was one of the key figures in the creation of jazz. Alan Lomax was the visionary folklorist who created a legacy that illuminated roots music sounds from around the world. Together, in 1938 at the Library of Congress, they made these groundbreaking recordings--the first recorded oral history in jazz.
When folklorist Alan Lomax made these epic 1938 recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's reminiscences and piano playing, he was creating the first great oral documentation of early jazz. This material has never been issued with the care, sensitivity and completeness that it gets here, with the complete interviews and musical performances sequenced over seven CDs in the order in which they took place. Morton was almost as great a raconteur as he was a musician, and his accounts of New Orleans in the early years of the 20th century--from bordellos to riots to funeral parades--are vivid, bawdy, and sometimes hilarious. His accounts of the music and his performances, from "King Porter Stomp" to the lengthy "Murder Ballad," provide a brilliant window on the mechanics and progress of jazz in its earliest years. The sound restoration is excellent and the complete package--cover art by R. Crumb, a piano-shaped box, a reprinting of Lomax's groundbreaking book Mister Jelly Roll, and an additional book with an essay by John Szwed and extensive photographs--befits a document of this significance. An eighth CD excerpts interviews Lomax conducted in 1949 with various New Orleans musicians (most notably Johnny St. Cyr) reminiscing about Morton and the early years of jazz. --Stuart Broomer

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