Jelly Roll Morton - Mr. Jelly Lord [NEW CD]

Jelly Roll Morton - Mr. Jelly Lord [NEW CD]

INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKS

This release presents the complete original LP "Mr. Jelly Lord" (Riverside RLP 12-132). A brilliant New Orleans pianist, Ferdinand Joseph “Jelly Roll” Morton (1890-1941) is also generally acknowledged as the first jazz composer. In 1938, while he was living in relative obscurity in Washington (playing at a small bar to earn his keep), folklorist Alan Lomax invited him to record what ended up being nine hours of piano performances and interviews for the Library of Congress Music Division’s Archive of American Folk Song. The Riverside LP presented here compiles the musical highlights from that collection. To the tracks on that album, six additional performances from the same sessions have been included.

JERRY ROLL MORTON, piano & vocals

RDF, Studio Montparnasse, Paris, August - September, 1947.

INCLUDES 16-PAGE BOOKLET

TRACKS:

01 KING PORTER STOMP #1
02 KING PORTER STOMP #2 (*)
03 NEW ORLEANS BLUES
04 THE PEARLS #1
05 THE PEARLS #2
06 FICKLE FAY CREEP
07 HYENA STOMP
08 PEP
09 JUNGLE BLUES
10 THE CRAVE
11 KANSAS CITY STOMPS #1
12 KANSAS CITY STOMPS #2
13 MAMANITA
14 CREEPY FEELING
15 SPANISH SWAT
16 AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’ (*)
17 BERT WILLIAMS (*)
18 FREAKISH (*)
19 SWEET PETER (*)
20 MR. JELLY ROLL (*)

(*) Bonus tracks: From the same sessions. Not on the original LP.

TOTAL TIME: 78:31