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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. Big Fat Ham - Jelly Roll Morton | |||
| 2. Muddy Water Blues | |||
| 3. Sobbin' Blues | |||
| 4. King Porter Stomp | |||
| 5. New Orleans Joys | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. Bucktown Blues | |||
| 2. Tom Cat Blues | |||
| 3. Stratford Hunch | |||
| 4. Perfect Rag | |||
| 5. King Porter Stomp | |||
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| Disc: 3 | |||
| 1. Beale Street Blues | |||
| 2. The Pearls | |||
| 3. Wolverine Blues | |||
| 4. Mr. Jelly Lord | |||
| 5. Georgia Swing | |||
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| Disc: 4 | |||
| 1. My Little Dixie Home | |||
| 2. That's Like It Ought To Be | |||
| 3. Each Day | |||
| 4. If Someone Would Only Love Me | |||
| 5. That'll Never Do | |||
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Product Description
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Jelly Roll Morton's life was nothing but colourful. He was a great tall tale teller and one of the most flamboyant extroverts jazz has ever known. Trying to separate fact from fiction in Jelly Roll Morton's life is a difficult task. Morton was an outsize braggart who never underestimated his own importance. Hustling formed an important part of his life's work. He was a pool player, a pimp, a bellhop, a tailor, a peddler, a cardsharp, a minstrel, a nightclub manager and a fight promoter, but it was as the first important jazz composer that he made his mark. Jelly Roll Morton was not only the first real jazz composer; he was the first jazz musician to make his entire approach to the music compositional. Whether as a piano soloist or as a leader of orchestras over which he had undoubted control, Morton emerged, and will be chiefly honoured, as the creator of total conceived jazz masterpieces. His grandiose claims as an innovator should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he was a virtually self-contained master of invention, the originator of orchestral jazz.
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By Ian Bishop
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A great jazz pianist and well priced, even with p/h is cheaper then buying it local:
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Essential Early Jazz
8 April 2012
By Konchog
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Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Anyone who wants to understand the roots of early jazz must turn to Jelly Roll Morton at some point. Although he's long been mocked for having claimed to have "invented" jazz, there was probably no one who played a bigger role in bringing together the disparate elements of early jazz. Jelly's compositions influenced many of the early greats such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Benny Goodman. Aside from their historical value, these old Jelly Roll Morton tunes are a lot of fun to listen to. Jelly's bands included many of the standout names of the period, such as Johnny Dodds, Red Allen, Bubber Miley, Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, Zutty Singleton, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Bud Scott, J.C. Higginbothom, Bernard Addison, Billy Taylor, Cozy Cole, Wilbur De Paris, Sidney Bechet, and many others.
Although there's some overlap with JSP's 5-CD Jelly Roll Morton set, which I already owned, I'm still glad I made this purchase. Whereas the JSP set includes more alternate takes of some of the most famous songs, this Proper Box set includes more material from Jelly's early days. In addition, as with all Proper Box sets, the little booklet adds a lot of value.
Although there's some overlap with JSP's 5-CD Jelly Roll Morton set, which I already owned, I'm still glad I made this purchase. Whereas the JSP set includes more alternate takes of some of the most famous songs, this Proper Box set includes more material from Jelly's early days. In addition, as with all Proper Box sets, the little booklet adds a lot of value.
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