Jelly Roll Morton - The Complete Library Of Congress '2005

Tracks list

Tracklist:

Disc 1

1. Im Alabama Bound 4:03
2. Time in Mobile 4:13
3. King Porter Stomp 4:06
4. The Story of King Porter Stomp 3:53
5. Jelly Rolls Background 4:22
6. Music Lessons 4:05
7. Miserere 4:05
8. The Stomping Grounds 4:15
9. The Style of Sammy Davis 4:17
10. Tony Jackson Was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium 4:00
11. Poor Alfred Wilson 4:02
12. Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun 4:20
13. New Orleans was a Free and Easy Place 4:06
14. The Story of Aaron Harris 4:06

Disc 2

1. The Story of Aaron Harris, continued / Aaron Harris Blues 4:05
2. Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot 4:10
3. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles 4:04
4. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot, continued 4:04
5. Game Kid Blues 3:57
6. New Orleans Funerals 4:17
7. Funeral Marches 4:11
8. Oh! Didnt He Ramble 4:07
9. Tiger Rag, third, fourth, and fifth strains 4:02
10. Tiger Rag / Panama 4:02
11. The Right Tempo is the Accurate Tempo 4:39
12. Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp 4:31
13. Kansas City Stomp, continued 4:34
14. Slow Swing and Sweet Jazz Music 4:32
15. Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jellys Brother-in-Law 4:22
16. Hesitation Blues 4:30

Disc 3

1. My Gal Sal 3:51
2. The St. Louis Scene 4:09
3. Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans style 4:19
4. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis 4:19
5. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis, continued 4:23
6. New Orleans Blues 3:58
7. Winin Boy Blues 3:45
8. Winin Boy Blues, continued 4:24
9. The Anamule Dance 3:46
10. The Anamule Dance, continued 4:19
11. The Great Buddy Bolden / Buddy Bildens Blues 4:11
12. The Great Buddy Bolden, continued 4:11
13. Mr. Jelly Lord 4:09
14. How Jelly Roll Got His Name 4:14
15. Original Jelly Roll Blues 4:09
16. Honky Tonk Blues 4:07

Disc 4

1. Real Tough Boys 4:31
2. Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate 4:33
3. Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas 4:20
4. See See Rider 4:24
5. Parading with the Broadway Swells 4:22
6. Fights and Weapons 4:27
7. Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs 4:25
8. Jellys Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale 4:14
9. Jellys Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena 4:34
10. Jellys Travels: From Helena to Memphis 4:23
11. In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy 4:24
12. Benny Frenchys Tune, continued 4:23
13. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor 4:15
14. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, continued 4:14
15. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, part 3 4:14
16. Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, concluded 4:35

Disc 5

1. The Dirty Dozen 4:30
2. The Murder Ballad, part 1 4:05
3. The Murder Ballad, part 2 4:17
4. The Murder Ballad, part 3 4:29
5. The Murder Ballad, part 4 4:19
6. The Murder Ballad, part 5 4:15
7. The Murder Ballad, part 6 4:29
8. The Murder Ballad, part 7 4:32
9. Fickle Fay Creep 3:17
10. Jungle Blues 3:43
11. King Porter Stomp 2:55
12. Sweet Peter 3:04
13. Hyena Stomp 3:32
14. Wolverine Blues, begun 3:45
15. Wolverine Blues, concluded 4:04
16. State And Madison 3:48
17. The Pearls, begun 3:28
18. The Pearls, concluded 3:35

Disc 6

1. Bert Williams 3:41
2. Freakish 3:59
3. Pep 3:32
4. The Georgia Skin Game 3:54
5. The Georgia Skin Game, continued 3:03
6. The Georgia Skin Game, conclusion 3:19
7. Ungai Hai 4:09
8. New Orleans Blues 4:07
9. The Spanish Tinge 4:13
10. Improving Spanish Tempos 4:06
11. Creepy Feeling, concluded 4:28
12. The Crave 4:37
13. Mamanita 4:12
14. If You Dont Shake, You Dont Get No Cake 4:21
15. Spanish Swat 4:21
16. Aint Misbehavin 4:11
17. I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff 4:11
18. Michigan Water Blues 3:51

Disc 7

1. Winin Boy Blues 3:45
2. Winin Boy Blues, continued 4:24
3. Boogie Woogie Blues 4:21
4. Buddy Bertrands Blues, continued / Mamies Blues 4:25
5. When the Hot Stuff Came In 8:40
6. The First Hot Arrangements 9:00
7. The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café 7:57
8. At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles 9:54
9. Little Liza Jane, continued / On the West Coast 9:45
10. In the Publishing Business 8:50

Disc 8

1. Original Jelly Roll Blues 1:51
2. Jelly Rolls Early Playing Days in the District 1:22
3. Hot Bands and Creole Tunes 4:29
4. Eh, La Bas 2:02
5. Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element 3:32
6. Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden 3:17
7. High Society 2:15
8. Sporting Life Costumes 1:38
9. Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician 2:23
10. Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting that Drive 4:28
11. Jelly Rolls Compositions 3:22
12. How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar 2:20
13. Guitar Blues 2:17
14. Bad Men and Pimps 3:38
15. The Story of the Coon Blues 1:33
16. Coon Blues 2:22
17. Jazz is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and
Parades 5:25
18. Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District 3:40
19. The Main Idea in Jazz: Just Watch Me - Improvising and Reading Music 3:23
20. Of All His Mothers Children He Loved Jelly the Best 6:17

When folklorist Alan Lomax made these epic 1938 recordings of Jelly Roll Mortons
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, a piano-shaped box, a reprinting of
Lomaxs groundbreaking book Mister Jelly Roll, and an additional 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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