Artist: Jelly Roll Morton
Album: Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930
Genre: Ragtime, New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland
Label: JSP Records
Released: 2000
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- CD 1:
- Black Bottom Stomp
- Smoke-House Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Luke, Charles
- The Chant - Jelly Roll Morton, Stitzel, Mel
- Sidewalk Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Melrose, Walter
- Dead Man Blues
- Steamboat Stomp
- Someday, Sweetheart - Jelly Roll Morton, Spikes, Benjamin
- Grandpa's Spells
- Original Jelly Roll Blues
- Doctor Jazz - Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver
- Cannonball Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Bloom, Marty
- Hyena Stomp
- Billy Goat Stomp
- Wild Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong, Louis
- Jungle Blues
- Beale Street Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Handy, W.C.
- The Pearls
- Wolverine Blues
- Mr. Jelly Lord
- CD 2:
- Red Hot Pepper
- Deep Creek Blues
- Pep - Jelly Roll Morton,
- Seattle Hunch
- Frances
- Freakish
- Burnin' the Iceberg
- Courthouse Bump
- Pretty Lil
- Sweet Anita Mine
- New Orleans Bump
- Down My Way
- Try Me Out
- Tank Town Bump
- Sweet Peter
- Jersey Joe
- Mississippi Mildred
- Mint Julep
- Smilin' the Blues Away
- Turtle Twist
- My Little Dixie Home
- That's Like It Ought to Be
- CD 3:
- Each Day
- If Someone Would Only Love Me
- That'll Never Do
- I'm Looking for a Little Bluebird
- Little Lawrence
- Harmony Blues
- Fussy Mabel
- Ponchartrain
- Oil Well
- Load of Coal
- Crazy Chords
- Primrose Stomp
- Low Gravy
- Strokin' Away
- Blue Blood Blues
- Mushmouth Shuffle
- Gambling Jack
- Fickle Fay Creep
- CD 4:
- The Chant - Jelly Roll Morton, Stitzel, Mel
- Sidewalk Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Melrose, Walter
- Dead Man Blues
- Someday, Sweetheart - Jelly Roll Morton, Spikes, Benjamin
- Grandpa's Spells
- Original Jelly Roll Blues
- Cannonball Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Bloom, Marty
- Hyena Stomp
- Billy Goat Stomp
- Wild Man Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong, Louis
- Jungle Blues
- Beale Street Blues - Jelly Roll Morton, Handy, W.C.
- The Pearls
- Wolverine Blues
- Georgia Swing
- Kansas City Stomp
- Shoe Shiner's Drag
- Boogaboo
- Shreveport Stomp
- Mournful Serenade - Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Joe "King"
- CD 5:
- Shreveport Stomp
- Seattle Hunch
- Freakish
- Burnin' the Iceberg
- Courthouse Bump
- Pretty Lil
- Sweet Anita Mine
- New Orleans Bump
- Tank Town Bump
- Sweet Peter
- Jersey Joe
- Mississippi Mildred
- Each Day
- Oil Well
- Load of Coal
- Crazy Chords
- Primrose Stomp
- Strokin' Away
- Blue Blood Blues
- Gambling Jack
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JSP's five-CD set devoted to Jelly Roll Morton contains all of his Victor recordings cut between September 1926 and October 1930. The sound quality is excellent and complete discographical information is provided along with insightful liner notes. Alternate takes are presented on separate discs so as to avoid redundancy. This creates doppelgängers, as it were, of most of the sessions involving larger ensembles. Jelly Roll Morton is heard as a solo pianist and as leader of his trios, Red Hot Peppers, and orchestra. The only shortcoming is the absence of eight titles recorded for Victor's Bluebird imprint in 1939 by Morton's New Orleans Jazzmen. Had the producers of this otherwise excellent compilation opted for these classic latter-day Jellies instead of obsessing over every single alternate take from the earlier sessions, this would be a serious contender for the "best and most affordable Jelly Roll Morton set" award. As it stands, JSP's hefty anthology is a great way to obtain most of Morton's major work on CD at relatively little cost. The very best way to study this artist is to start at the beginning of his discography using the Classics Chronological Series and then move forward. After hearing these canonic classic jazz recordings as presented by JSP, some folks will indeed want to zoom in for close-ups and study every recorded episode in this primal jazzman's life and works. ~ arwulf arwulf