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| | Jelly Roll Morton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Morton's "Jelly Roll" nickname is a sexual reference and many of his lyrics from his Storyville days were vulgar. | | | Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941) was an American virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer who some call the first true composer of Jazz music. | | | After leaving New Orleans, Morton traveled widely in North America, spending several years in California before moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1923, where he released the first of his commercial recordings, both as a piano soloist and with various jazz bands. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Jelly Roll Morton |
| | By 1926-7, Morton was recording with his Red Hot Peppers, a seven- or eight- piece band organized for recording purposes and comprised of colleagues well-versed in the New Orleans style and familiar with Morton's music. | | | Jelly Roll Morton grew up in New Orleans and started to learn piano at the age of ten. | | | Particularly noteworthy is the manner in which Morton provides opportunities for all the performers to contribute significant solos (usually climaxing in exultant two-bar breaks) without losing sight of overall structural unity and a balance between solo and ensemble. |
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http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_morton_jelly_roll.htm
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| | Jelly Roll Morton - Southcentral USA |
| | Jelly Roll was born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe in New Orleans on October 20, 1885 or 1890. | | | It was during his dozen or so years of travel that Jelly Roll melted a variety of music styles including ragtime, religious spirituals, Caribbean, and the popular white songs to create a music all his own that he called Jazz. | | | One hundred years after Jelly Roll Morton started playing music professionally he was awarded a life time achievement award by the Grammy’s in 2005. |
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http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art28829.asp
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| | CD Baby: RICHARD TRYTHALL: Jelly Roll Morton Piano Music |
| | Jelly Roll Morton (born Ferdinand Lemott), was a classically trained pianist who played music in New Orleans brothels at the age of 16. | | | The result is remarkable: it brings alive the unbridled virtuosity of Jelly Roll Morton, the nuances of his performance, the wealth of his expression as performed on a modern, scintillating piano which bursts forth from the recording energetically. | | | Trythall's latest release, "Jelly Roll Morton Piano Music" (MR Classics), is a painstakingly accurate recreation of the music of one of the architects of jazz. |
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http://www.cdbaby.com/trythall
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| | Jelly Roll Morton, MP3 Music Download at eMusic |
| | Morton's storytelling was colorful and his piano playing in generally fine form as he reminisced about old New Orleans and demonstrated the other piano styles of the era. | | | Jelly Roll Morton's early piano solos and classic Victor recordings (along with nearly every record he made) have been reissued on CD. | | | Morton's 1923-24 recordings of piano solos introduced his style, repertoire and brilliance. |
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http://www.emusic.com/artist/10561/10561382.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers |
| | Morton moved to New York and assembled another version of the band and went on to record with Victor until 1930. | | | Jelly Roll assembled a group of musicians who could play in the New Orleans style and called them the Red Hot Peppers. | | | The tracks recorded in Chicago in 1926 and 1927 are considered some of the finest recordings in the "Hot Style". |
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http://www.redhotjazz.com/redhot.html
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| | jazzbrat.com - Jelly Roll Morton |
| | He was the first to arrange music to fit the playing time of a 78, and also the first jazz musician to use musical notation for his compositions. | | | Morton eventually succumbed to asthma (or voodoo) in 1941. | | | When the Depression hit in 1929, Morton was let go by his record label. |
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http://www.jazzbrat.com/templates/jpage.php?u_pageid=27
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| | Jelly Roll Morton and the "Frog-I-More Rag" (Imagination): American Treasures of the Library of Congress |
| | Morton recorded the rag twice in the spring of 1924 but only one of the recordings survives; it was not released until the 1940s. | | | But Morton did not deposit the music for copyright until 1918, for fear that any form of public record was an invitation to purloin his ideas. | | | The disc and the tinted photograph of Morton are from the Nesuhi Ertegun Collection of Jelly Roll Morton Recordings at the Library of Congress. |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri007.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Morton's version would have made him 17 in 1902, by which time he had already played piano in whorehouses in Biloxi and New Orleans. | | | The performer is Jelly Roll Morton, once one of America's most popular performers and songwriters, down on his luck and mostly forgotten. | | | Jackson was an educated Creole, and had an incredibly trained ear that made him able to play any tune he heard, whether it was a show tune, opera, folk song, or any other type of music. |
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http://www.jazzitude.com/morton.htm
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| | Selected Bibliography: Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the birth of recorded jazz. | | | Jelly Roll Morton piano rolls courtesy of Bluesrolls.com | | | Mister Jelly Roll: The fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "inventor of jazz". |
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http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/su/cja/jelly.html
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Jelly Roll Morton |
| | But Morton also arranged his recorded performances to fit the playing time of the 78 rpm disc - thereby adding a new skill to that of the composer and arranger. | | | His band discs, notably those from 1926-7 with his Red Hot Peppers, are classic examples of the New Orleans ensemble style, with trumpet, clarinet and trombone parts weaving together in collective improvisation. | | | He proved his critics wrong, both with a marvellous series of autobiographical discs made for the Library of Congress in 1938 that build up a fascinating portrait of turn-of-the century New Orleans and its music, and also in further sets of band discs from 1939 and 1941. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/jellyroll_morton.shtml
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| | Amazon.com: Birth of the Hot: Music: Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Jelly Roll Morton was at a creative peak in Chicago in 1926 and '27, surrounded by first-rate fellow New Orleans musicians and with plenty of opportunities to record. | | | Jelly Roll claims to be the father of jazz and this cd will make you think he just might have been. | | | Jelly Roll was the first important composer of 1920's jazz and these are his finest recordings. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002WTZ?v=glance
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| | Jelly Roll Morton: The Piano Rolls |
| | Jelly Roll Morton’s recorded music is available to the listener on CD. | | | The original paper roll speed has been converted to metronome markings and indicated for each song, giving the practicing pianist an opportunity to perform at the same speed as a player piano. | | | By using MIDI technology with collector’s copies of the original player piano paper rolls, Artis Wodehouse has created the written music that corresponds with Jelly Roll Morton’s piano rolls. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1336
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| | NPR : Jelly Roll Morton Plays the Library of Congress |
| | Jelly Roll Morton was recorded by Alan Lomax in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in 1938. | | | These selections include Morton both playing his music and talking about its roots. | | | Now those recordings have been released in a new box set from Rounder Records called Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5039442&ft=1&f=1039
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| | French Creoles Jelly Roll Morton |
| | As a youngster he learned to play the piano and absorbed, and remembered, an enormous part of the multi-faceted musical culture of New Orleans, including its advanced jazz rhythmic style. | | | The set is a remarkable series of recordings, interesting as music, biography, folklore, and history. | | | In the 1930s, after losing opportunities to publish and record, he moved in 1953 to Washington, D.C. There Alan Lomax, working at the Archive of Folk Song of the Library of Congress heard Morton and persuaded him to record a series of interviews and performances. |
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http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/jellyrollmorton/jellyrollmorton.htm
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| | Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Jelly Roll Morton biographer Phil Pastras interview |
| | Morton wasn't featured in any way, he was just part of the band. | | | Consequently, I put together a performance piece in which I sit at the piano and act Jelly Roll Morton's interviews…I used Lomax's version of the interviews as a script and play some of the music and sing some of the song. | | | Because Goodman's theme song was Morton's "King Porter Stomp," he knew about Jelly Roll, but had didn't go. |
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http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=pastras.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Jelly Roll Morton - Jazz Musician, born 20 October 1890, The composer of Jelly Roll Blues | | | Jazzman Jelly Roll Morton denied what his music couldn't.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers) | | | Profile: Jelly Roll Morton and his song "King Porter Stomp" |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0834137.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | The story of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger, was later issued as a book, Mister Jelly Roll, edited by interviewer Alan Lomax, one of the most prolific collectors of American folk music for the Library of Congress. | | | The most important innovative feature of Jelly Roll Morton's style has to do with the traditional organization of the New Orleans jazz orchestra and its practice of collective improvisation. | | | The tutti (everybody) presentations of the original tune were interspersed with improvised solos by especially trumpet and clarinet, and in later years also trombone and piano. |
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http://lakjer.dk/erik/musik/jrm.html
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| | JELLY ROLL MORTON |
| | Albert Carroll, the New Orleans pianist who was said by Clarence Williams to have a profound influence on Jelly Roll, was the musical director of the New Orleans Minstrels. | | | Laurie knew that time was running out to contact the original musicians who had both played and recorded with, or simply knew, Jelly Roll Morton. | | | However, it wasn’t until 1968 that the first full-scale work listing Morton’s recordings appeared, when Laurie Wright and John R. Davies compiled and published Morton’s Music. |
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http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/page10.html
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| | JELLY ROLL MORTON - WASHINGTON D.C. |
| | The Jelly Roll Blues was a famous number written by the latter half of the blackface vaudeville team of Creampuff and Jellyroll, “Songs and funny sayings.” It gave a famous Negro pianist and composer his nickname, “Jelly Roll” Morton; he was christened Ferdinand Morton. | | | Concerning the modern combination of instruments used in present-day jamming, Jelly Roll said that down in New Orleans, they used the violin, guitar, bass violin, clarinet, trumpet, trombone and drums. | | | Guy Williams, to whom Jelly Roll refers as the originator of the “Jogo Blues,” was the guitarist in my No. 2 band. |
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http://www.doctorjazz.freeserve.co.uk/page10bc.html
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| | BluesTone "Jelly Roll Morton" Rolls |
| | Another Morton classic, another case of the counter-melody being suppressed, and another top-notch piano roll performance by the composer. | | | Jelly recorded Tom Cat Blues in 1924, then reworked it as Midnight Mama in 1926. | | | Pardon the hyperbole, but this is a classic solo and an absolutely incredible piano roll. |
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http://www.bluesrolls.com/Blues.Morton.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton recorded several days' worth of spoken and musical memoirs for Alan Lomax at the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress. | | | Volume One collects pop tunes, opera excerpts, brass band tunes, New Orleans funeral pieces, ragtime, jazz numbers, and more: Morton ties together all the musical strains floating through New Orleans at the time that jazz was born. | | | Volume Two contains many pieces from Morton's decade-long apprenticeship as solo pianist and entertainer: if the raunchy lyrics are any indication, he was playing for very rough audiences. |
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http://www.rounder.com/series/lomax_alan/jllyroll.html
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| | JELLY ROLL BLUES |
| | Vernel and the Jim Cullum Jazz Band perform some of the tunes Jelly recorded for the Victor label in the 1920s with his band of New Orleanians, the Red Hot Peppers. | | | This week's show features the Jim Cullum Jazz Band with Vernel Bagneris, recorded live on stage at the historic Crest Theatre in downtown Sacramento, as part of the annual Sacramento Jazz Jubilee. | | | Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Victor Recordings (RCA/Bluebird) |
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http://www.riverwalk.org/proglist/showpromo/jellyrollblues_sac2k.htm
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| | Weekend Sunday (NPR): Jelly Roll Morton@ HighBeam Research |
| | And in just a moment we're going to hear some music by Jelly Roll Morton on a player piano a long way from the birthplace of the pianist, composer, and band leader, a man who claimed to have created jazz. | | | While that can and is being debated, there is no argument that the man born Ferdinand Joseph Lamenth (ph) proudly influenced the course of American music. | | | Weekend Sunday (NPR): Jelly Roll Morton@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1:28632253/Jelly+Roll+Morton.html?refid=ip_hf
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Jelly Roll learned to play the guitar at the age of six, but his real love was the piano and by the age of 12 he was playing piano in the Storyville Bordellos, (a New Orleans district). | | | Jelly Roll, Shreveport Stomp, Black Bottom Stomp, Doctor Jazz, Wild Man Blues, | | | Ferdinand Joseph Morton was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 20, 1890. |
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http://multirace.org/firstday/first1.htm
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| | Glossary: Morton, Jelly Roll |
| | Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) was a jazz piano player who began his career in New Orleans houses of ill repute. | | | The CD features recordings made between 12/28 and 12/29. | | | Given Van's lyrical ambiguity, it is open to interpretation whether the various "jelly roll" references are to the jazz piano player, or to the sexual act (see the glossary entry for "jellyroll" for a discussion on the meaning behind the nickname, and some additional Van references). |
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http://www.harbour.sfu.ca/~hayward/van/glossary/morton.html
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| | Morton, Jelly Roll -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | As the first significant jazz composer in America, Jelly Roll Morton, self-styled “originator of jazz stomps and blues,&; was one of the most colorful characters in jazz history. | | | Uses images taken from advertising combined with text from teen advice columns to explore the construction of self-image for teenage girls. | | | Morton's sophisticated style, rooted in ragtime and basic instrumental blues, and his dedication to composition and rehearsed performance... |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9312585?tocId=9312585
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| | Jazz Roots: Jelly Roll Morton |
| | In this excerpt from Allan Lomax's Mister Jelly Roll (1950), famed musician Jelly Roll Morton gives an account of the New Orleans jazz scene at the turn of the twentieth-century. | | | He was the outstanding favorite New Orleans, and I have never known any pianists to come from any section of the world that could leave New Orleans victorious... | | | So in the year of 1902 when I was about seventeen years old I happened to invade one of the sections where the birth of jazz originated from. |
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/brandi/jellyroll.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | His most memorable recordings were made in the 1920s: a number of piano pieces recorded in 1923-24, and a series of instrumentals (1926-30) made with his group, The Red Hot Peppers. | | | The jazz pianist and composer Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe "Jelly Roll" Morton, born Gulfport, La., Sept. 20, 1885, died July 10, 1941, was one of the first great New Orleans jazz artists and orchestrators and perhaps the first jazz theorist. | | | Morton was proud to the point of arrogance both of his talents and of his Creole heritage, which separated him, he felt, from his black jazz colleagues. |
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http://www.gatewayno.com/music/Jelly_Roll.html
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| | Amazon.com: Jelly Roll Morton's Jams: Music: Jelly Roll Morton |
| | Amazon.com: Jelly Roll Morton's Jams: Music: Jelly Roll Morton | | | Jelly Roll Morton, Various Artists - Jazz - New Orleans/Dixieland/Ragtime | | | This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000046PC?v=glance
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| | FolkLib Index - Artist Selection - M |
| | Morton, Pete - Page (Harbourtown Records), Bibliog (FolkLib Index) | | | Mamas and the Papas, The - Page (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Bibliog (FolkLib Index) | | | Mitchell, Joni - Discog (FolkLib Index), Page (WallyBreese) (The Ballad Tree) (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame), Bibliog (FolkLib Index) |
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http://www.folklib.net/index/indexm.shtml
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| | Jelly Roll Morton |
| | In his memory, I've created two MIDI "piano roll" files that demonstrate the difference. | | | Like many of his compositions, it is complex, with multiple sections, abrupt breaks or stop-time passages, frequent shifts in instrumentation, and a break-neck tempo. | | | Morton liked to demonstrate his jazz performance style by performing the same piece twice, in two different ways: first, in ragtime style, using eighth and sixteenth notes of equal duration, and second, in jazz style, "swinging" the eighth and sixteenth notes. |
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http://www.wright.edu/~martin.maner/morton.html
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| | Jelly Roll Morton : Oldies.com |
| | A gifted musician, Morton played various instruments before deciding to concentrate on piano. | | | His reputation spread extensively, owing to tours and theatrical work in various parts of the Deep South and visits to Kansas City, Chicago, Los Angeles and other important urban centres... | | | Read the Full Biography of Jelly Roll Morton |
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http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_7097.html
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