Jelly Roll Morton - The Pearls

Styles: Piano Jazz
Year: 1988
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 72:48
Size: 167,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:12)  1. Black Bottom Stomp
(3:26)  2. Smokehouse Blues
(3:11)  3. The Chant
(3:32)  4. Sidewalk Blues
(3:13)  5. Dead Man Blues
(3:07)  6. Steamboat Stomp
(2:53)  7. Grandpa's Spells
(3:08)  8. Original Jelly Roll Blues
(3:26)  9. Doctor Jazz
(2:51) 10. Cannon Ball Blues
(3:24) 11. The Pearls
(3:18) 12. Wolverine Blues
(2:50) 13. Mr. Jelly Lord
(2:30) 14. Georgia Swing
(2:53) 15. Kansas City Stomps
(3:14) 16. Shreveport Stomp
(3:25) 17. Mournful Serenade
(3:09) 18. Red Hot Pepper Stomp
(3:27) 19. Deep Creek
(2:55) 20. Freakish
(3:09) 21. Tanktown Bump
(3:13) 22. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say
(3:11) 23. Winin' Boy Blues

This astounding 23-track compilation deserves a place in everybody's jazz collection it's that important, that listenable, and that essential. It takes the cream of Morton's sessions from his legendary 1926 Red Hot Peppers to his 1939 dates leading a small New Orleans band, with all the essential stops along the way, including a 1927 trio with the Dodds brothers in Chicago. This is hot jazz nearing the apex of sophistication, just before Duke Ellington took it even more uptown. ~ Cub Koda http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-pearls-mw0000651986

Personnel: Piano, Arranged By – Jelly Roll Morton; Banjo – Johnny St. Cyr;  Bass – John Lindsey;  Bass Clarinet – Omer Simeon;  Clarinet – Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard , Johnny Dodds , Omer Simeon;  Cornet – George Mitchell;  Drums – Andrew Hilaire , Baby Dodds , Tommy Benford;  Guitar – Johnny St. Cyr;  Trombone – Geechy Fields, Kid Ory 

The Pearls

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