Jelly Roll Morton ( AUDIO CD )

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated.

CONDITION: NEW

TRACK LISTING

1 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band– Froggie Moore
2 King Oliver's Jazz Band– London (Café) Blues
3 The Tennessee Tooters– Kansas City Stomps
4 Henry Busse's Buzzards*– Milenberg Joys
5 Chas. Creath's Jazz-O-Maniacs*– Grandpa's Spells
6 Sonny Clay's Plantation Orchestra– Chicago Breakdown
7 Lanin's Red Heads– King Porter Stomp
8 King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators– Dead Man Blues
9 The Red Heads– Black Bottom Stomp
10 Doc Cook's Dreamland Orchestra*– Sidewalk Blues
11 Gregoire Nakchounian And His Russian North Star Orchestra– Schreeveport Stomp (sic)
12 Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra– Midnight Mama
13 Joe Candullo And His Orchestra*– Windy City Blues (Stomp)
14 Johnny Dodds' Black Bottom Stompers– Wild Man Blues
15 California Ramblers– Jelly Roll Blues
16 Benny Goodman's Boys– Jungle Blues
17 Fletcher Henderson And His Orchestra– New King Porter Stomp
18 Claude Hopkins And His Orchestra– Sweetheart O' Mine
19 Bob Crosby And His Orchestra– Wolverine Blues
20 Lionel Hampton And His Orchestra– Shoe Shiner's Drag
21 Mary Lou Williams– The Pearls
22 Lu Watters' Yerba Buena Jazz Band*– Original Jelly Roll Blues