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Complete Library of Congress Recordings

Complete Library of Congress RecordingsArtist: Jelly Roll Morton
Label: Rounder / Umgd


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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 10 reviews
Sales Rank: 166,851

Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 11.4 x 10.2 x 0.9

UPC: 011661189829
EAN: 0011661189829
ASIN: B000GFLE36

Release Date: August 22, 2006
Tracks:

  Disc 1
  • Story of "I'm Alabama Bound"/I'm Alabama Bound [Version]
  • Time in Mobile/I'm Alabama Bound [Excerpt][Version]
  • King Porter Stomp [Piano Instrumental/The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
  • The Story of "King Porter Stomp [Continued]
  • Jelly Roll's Background [Spoken]
  • Music Lessons/Miserere [Instrumental][Version]
  • Miserere [Instrumental][Version]
  • The Stomping Grounds [Spoken]
  • The Style of Sammy Davis [Piano Instrumental/The Renown of Tony ... [Instru
  • Tony Jackson Was the Favorite/Dope, Crown, and Opium [Version]
  • Poor Alfred Wilson/Tony Jackson's "Naked Dance" [Spoken][Version]
  • Honky Tonk Blues/In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun [Spoken]
  • New Orleans Was a Free and Easy Place/Levee Man Blues [Version]
  • The Story of Aaron Harris [Spoken]

  Disc 2
  • The Story of Aaron Harris (Continued)/Aaron Harris Blues [Version]
  • Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, And the Hat That Started a Riot ...
  • The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles ...
  • The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot (Continued) /Game Kid Blues [Version
  • Game Kid Blues [Instrumental][Version]
  • New Orleans Funerals/Steal Away/Nearer My God to Thee [Version]
  • Funeral Marches/Flee as the Bird to the Mountain [Spoken][Version]
  • Oh! Didn't He Ramble [Piano Instrumental/Evolution of Tiger Rag ... [In
  • Tiger Rag Third, Fourth, And Fifth Strains [Instrumental][Version]
  • Tiger Rag [Instrumental][Version]
  • The Right Tempo Is the Accurate Tempo/Ha ... [Interview and Demonstration]
  • Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp [Interview and ...]
  • Kansas City Stomp (Continued)/Breaks in Jazz ... [Instrumental][Version
  • Slow Swing and Sweet Jazz Music [Interview and Demonstration]
  • Salty Dog/Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-In-Law [Spoken]
  • Hesitation Blues [Interview and Song]

  Disc 3
  • My Gal Sal Original and Transformation [Interview and Song]
  • The St. Louis Scene/Randalls' Tune/Maple ... [Instrumental][Version]
  • Maple Leaf Rag St. Louis Style, Conclusion [Instrumental][Version]
  • Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis [Spoken]
  • Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis (Continued)/Miserere, ... [Version]
  • New Orleans Blues
  • Winin' Boy Blues [Continued]
  • Winin' Boy Blues
  • The Anamule Dance
  • The Anamule Dance [Version]
  • The Great Buddy Bolden/Buddy Bolden's Blues [Spoken]
  • The Great Buddy Bolden [Version]
  • Mr. Jelly Lord
  • How Jelly Roll Got His Name/Original Jelly Roll Blues ... [Version]
  • Original Jelly Roll Blues
  • Honky Tonk Blues/Old-Time Honky Tonks [Spoken]

  Disc 4
  • Real Tough Boys [Spoken]
  • Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate [Spoken]
  • Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas/See See Rider [Version]
  • See See Rider (Continued)/Parading with the Broadway Swells [Spoken]
  • Parading with the Broadway Swells (Continued) [Spoken]
  • Fights and Weapons/Stars and Stripes Forever [Spoken][Version]
  • Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs [Interview and ...]
  • Jelly's Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale [Spoken]
  • Jelly's Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena [Spoken]
  • Jelly's Travels: From Helena to Memphis [Spoken]
  • In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy/Benny ... [Version]
  • Benny Frenchy's Tune (Continued)/Bad Sam, Memphis' [Instrumental][Versi
  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor [Interview and Song]
  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor
  • Make Me a Pallet on the Floor [Continued][Version]

  Disc 5
  • The Dirty Dozen [Interview and Song]
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 1
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 2
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 3
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 4
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 5
  • The Murder Ballad, Pt. 6
  • The Murder Ballad, Conclusion
  • Fickle Fay Creep [Instrumental][Version]
  • Jungle Blues [Instrumental][Version]
  • King Porter Stomp [Instrumental][Version]
  • Sweet Peter [Instrumental][Version]
  • Hyena Stomp [Instrumental][Version]
  • Wolverine Blues [Continued]
  • Wolverine Blues
  • State and Madison [Instrumental][Version]
  • The Pearls [Instrumental][Version]
  • The Pearls [Instrumental][Version]

  Disc 6
  • Bert Williams [Instrumental][Version]
  • Freakish [Instrumental][Version]
  • Pep [Instrumental][Version]
  • The Georgia Skin Game [Continued][Version]
  • The Georgia Skin Game [Version]
  • The Georgia Skin Game/I'm Gonna Get One and Go ... [Version]
  • Ungai Hai, The Sign of the Indians [Interview and Song]
  • New Orleans Blues [Piano Instrumental]
  • The Spanish Tinge [Interview and Demonstration]
  • Improving Spanish Tempos and Creepy Feeling [Interview and Piano ...]
  • Creepy Feeling [Piano Instrumental][Instrumental][Version]
  • The Crave [Instrumental][Version]
  • Mamanita [Instrumental][Version]
  • C'Était N'Aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc/If You ... [Interview and Song]
  • Spanish Swat [Instrumental][Version]
  • Ain't Misbehavin'
  • I Hate a Man Like You/Rolling Stuff [Piano ...]
  • Michigan Water Blues [Interview and Song]

  Disc 7
  • Winin' Boy Blues
  • Winin' Boy Blues
  • Boogie Woogie Blues
  • Buddy Bertrand's Blues [Instrumental][Version]
  • When the Hot Stuff Came In [Spoken]
  • The First Hot Arrangements [Spoken]
  • The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café [Spoken]
  • At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles [Version]
  • Little Liza Jane
  • In the Publishing Business/Tricks Ain't Walking No More [Version]

  Disc 8
  • Original Jelly Roll Blues [Instrumental]
  • Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District [Spoken]
  • Hot Bands and Creole Tunes [Spoken]
  • Eh, La Bas/Riffs and Breaks from Creole Songs [Spoken]
  • Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element [Spoken]
  • Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden [Spoken]
  • High Society [Instrumental]
  • Sporting Life Costumes [Spoken]
  • Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician [Spoken]
  • Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting That Drive [Spoken]
  • Jelly Roll's Compositions [Spoken]
  • How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar [Spoken]
  • Guitar Blues/Just the Guitar Blues [Instrumental][Version]
  • Bad Men and Pimps [Spoken]
  • The Story of the Coon Blues [Spoken]
  • Coon Blues [Instrumental]
  • Jazz Is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals,
  • Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District [Spoken]
  • The Main Idea in Jazz: Just Watch Me - Improvising and Reading Music ...
  • Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best: A Little Tale of
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
When folklorist Alan Lomax made these epic 1938 recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's 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 and a 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

Album Description
The stories and songs on these recordings are a document of the big bang of jazz music at the dawn of the 20th Century. New Orleans composer, pianist and pool shark Jelly Roll Morton was one of the key figures in the creation of jazz. Alan Lomax was the visionary folklorist who created a legacy that illuminated roots music sounds from around the world. Together, in 1938 at the Library of Congress, they made these groundbreaking recordings--the first recorded oral history in jazz.

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5 out of 5 stars A candid glimpse into musical history   January 12, 2008
Steven Cobb (Kansas City)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I had downloaded a few tracks from iTunes and decided that I wanted more. I wasn't disappointed. This is a treasure trove of first-hand accounts from a great and famous musician of what his life was like. The style and tone of Jelly's speech as much as the stories he told really helped paint a picture of being a musician and just being around in the early 1900s. I wish there were more recorded accounts like this--it's sort of like spending a weekend with my grandpa listening to what it was like for him as a youth. There's a lot of great music here too, and language that will offend many, but it's a rough-and-tumble account of rough-and -tumble times. I couldn't recommend these CDs highly enough to anyone interested in the formative years of jazz, when ragtime was still hot, and New Orleans was an incubator for music that eventually swept the nation. I've listened to the entire set several times, and still listen to parts of it every week.


5 out of 5 stars Recomendo   September 2, 2007
John Lester (Vila Velha, Espírito Santo Brazil)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

Uma das figuras mais geniais e polêmicas da história do jazz foi Jelly Roll Morton, considerado por vários estudiosos o primeiro compositor do jazz. Morton, um mulato de New Orleans que se considerava branco descendente de franceses, iniciou a carreira tocando em bordéis e esteve em quase todas as cidades onde se podia ganhar algum dinheiro tocando jazz. Costumava se apresentar com um cartão onde constava a inscrição "inventor do jazz". Se ele realmente acreditava nisso ou estava apenas brincando, nunca vamos saber. O fato é que Morton foi o primeiro músico a conseguir colocar na partitura alguns dos principais elementos musicais que realmente diferenciavam o jazz de seus ancestrais: spirituals, blues e ragtime. Para aqueles que não apreciam gravações repletas de estalidos e chiados, o álbum traz registros cujo tratamento técnico torna a audição agradável até para as orelhas mais exigentes. Um prato cheio para os estudiosos do jazz.


5 out of 5 stars Even when he did not invent jazz in the year 1904 .....   January 18, 2007
Eckart Wall
9 out of 10 found this review helpful

Nearly every jazz-friend has heard about the legendary recordings, Jelly Roll Morton made for the Library of Congress, and that there he declared to have invented this music in 1904 or so....
I play jazz as an amateur since more than 50 years, and I never expected to be able to have these recordings. Now I hear his voice, I hear him play and declare, what he plays. And suddenly an important time of history of jazz, an important musician and composer got to be living for me. It's great, and I wish that every oldtime-jazz musician would listen to the stories he tells.
And I think: it does not matter, whether they are true or not - they in any case are full of a musicians life.



5 out of 5 stars Given as gift.   January 9, 2007
Jazz Buff (Hoboken, New Jersey)
2 out of 12 found this review helpful

This set was requested as a Christmas gift by the recipient. He has said it is great. I respect his judgement and look forward to hearing the records when we are next together (we live at opposite ends of the country).


5 out of 5 stars If you care about early jazz, you need this!   July 1, 2006
F. McDonald
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I believe Duke Ellington once said that to listen to jazz with no knowledge of its history is to miss much of its charm. This is a real treasure of recordings that will broaden and deepen my appreciation of the many charms of jazz for years to come. The recordings themselves, as well as the accompanying notes and book, have already changed my concept of the roots of early jazz, Jelly's contributions to it, and his character as a human being. I no longer believe he was the outrageously self-aggrandizing braggart that some writers made him out to be. While not a flashy virtuoso like Hines or Tatum, there are some gorgeous pianistic moments.

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