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
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Rounder / Umgd
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. The Story of "I'm Alabama Bound"/I'm Alabama Bound
  2. Time in Mobile/I'm Alabama Bound
  3. King Porter Stomp [Piano Instrumental/The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
  4. The Story of "King Porter Stomp,
  5. Jelly Roll's Background
  6. Music Lessons/Miserere
  7. Miserere
  8. The Stomping Grounds
  9. The Style of Sammy Davis [Piano Instrumental/The Renown of Tony ...
  10. Tony Jackson Was the Favorite/Dope, Crown, and Opium
  11. Poor Alfred Wilson/Tony Jackson's "Naked Dance"
  12. Honky Tonk Blues/In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun
  13. New Orleans Was a Free and Easy Place/Levee Man Blues
  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) /Game Kid Blues
  5. Game Kid Blues
  6. New Orleans Funerals/Steal Away/Nearer My God to Thee
  7. Funeral Marches/Flee as the Bird to the Mountain
  8. Oh! Didn't He Ramble [Piano Instrumental/Evolution of Tiger Rag ...
  9. Tiger Rag Third, Fourth, And Fifth Strains
  10. Tiger Rag
  11. The Right Tempo Is the Accurate Tempo/Ha ...
  12. Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp
  13. Kansas City Stomp (Continued)/Breaks in Jazz ...
  14. Slow Swing and Sweet Jazz Music
  15. Salty Dog/Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-In-Law
  16. Hesitation Blues
Music CD 3
  1. My Gal Sal Original and Transformation
  2. The St. Louis Scene/Randalls' Tune/Maple ...
  3. Maple Leaf Rag St. Louis Style, Conclusion
  4. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis
  5. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis (Continued)/Miserere, ...
  6. New Orleans Blues
  7. Winin' Boy Blues
  8. Winin' Boy Blues
  9. The Anamule Dance
  10. The Anamule Dance
  11. The Great Buddy Bolden/Buddy Bolden's Blues
  12. The Great Buddy Bolden
  13. Mr. Jelly Lord
  14. How Jelly Roll Got His Name/Original Jelly Roll Blues ...
  15. Original Jelly Roll Blues
  16. Honky Tonk Blues/Old-Time Honky Tonks
Music CD 4
  1. Real Tough Boys
  2. Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate
  3. Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas/See See Rider
  4. See See Rider (Continued)/Parading with the Broadway Swells
  5. Parading with the Broadway Swells (Continued)
  6. Fights and Weapons/Stars and Stripes Forever
  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/Benny ...
  12. Benny Frenchy's Tune (Continued)/Bad Sam, Memphis'
  13. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  14. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  15. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  16. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
Music CD 5
  1. The Dirty Dozen
  2. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 1
  3. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 2
  4. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 3
  5. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 4
  6. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 5
  7. The Murder Ballad, Pt. 6
  8. The Murder Ballad, Conclusion
  9. Fickle Fay Creep
  10. Jungle Blues
  11. King Porter Stomp
  12. Sweet Peter
  13. Hyena Stomp
  14. Wolverine Blues
  15. Wolverine Blues
  16. State and Madison
  17. The Pearls
  18. The Pearls
Music CD 6
  1. Bert Williams
  2. Freakish
  3. Pep
  4. The Georgia Skin Game
  5. The Georgia Skin Game
  6. The Georgia Skin Game/I'm Gonna Get One and Go ...
  7. Ungai Hai, The Sign of the Indians
  8. New Orleans Blues
  9. The Spanish Tinge
  10. Improving Spanish Tempos and Creepy Feeling
  11. Creepy Feeling
  12. The Crave
  13. Mamanita
  14. C'?tait N'Aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc/If You ...
  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
  3. Boogie Woogie Blues
  4. Buddy Bertrand'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
  10. In the Publishing Business/Tricks Ain't Walking No More
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/Riffs and Breaks from Creole Songs
  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/Just the 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,
  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: A Little Tale of

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 and a 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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