Artist: Jelly-Roll Morton
Album: 1928-1929
Genre: New Orleans Jazz
Label: Classics
Released: 1992
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Red Hot Pepper (3:12)
- Deep Creek (3:32)
- Pep (2:57)
- Seattle Hunch (3:10)
- Frances (Fat Frances) (3:03)
- Freakish (2:57)
- Burnin' the Iceberg (3:03)
- Courthouse Bump (3:03)
- Pretty Lil (3:14)
- Sweet Aneta Mine (2:47)
- New Orleans Bump (Monrovia) (3:32)
- Down My Way (3:21)
- Try Me Out (2:32)
- Tank Town Bump (3:12)
- Sweet Peter (2:46)
- Jersey Joe (2:22)
- Mississippi Mildred (3:19)
- Mint Julep (3:03)
- You Oughta See My Gal (2:23)
- Futuristic Blues (3:27)
- Keep Your Business to Yourself (2:54)
- She's Got What I Need (2:58)
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This CD traces Jelly Roll Morton's period in New York, starting with his second record date in the Big Apple. A few of the sessions have Morton joined by an excess of musicians, with the results certainly being spirited, if bordering on getting out of control. "Tank Town Bump" and "Red Hot Pepper Stomp" are the best of these numbers. In addition, Morton is heard on four excellent piano solos (including "Seattle Hunch" and "Freakish"), leading a nucleus taken from the Luis Russell Orchestra on four other songs, and playing as a sideman with vaudevillian clarinetist Wilton Crawley's pickup band, sometimes to hilarious effect. One of the true jazz giants, every recording by Jelly Roll Morton is well worth acquiring in one form or another.
Review by Scott Yanow