Release Date: 08 June 2015
Label: Poll Winner Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436542019798
Genres: Jazz
Description
The complete original LP Mr. Jelly Lord (Riverside Records RLP 12-132). A brilliant New Orleans pianist, Ferdinand Joseph 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941) is also generally acknowledged as the first jazz composer. In 1938, while he was living in relative obscurity in Washington (playing at a small bar to earn his keep), folklorist Alan Lomax invited him to record what ended up being nine hours of piano performances and interviews for the Library of Congress Music Division s Archive of American Folk Song. The Riverside LP presented here compiles the musical highlights from that collection. To the tracks on that album, they have included six additional performances from the same sessions. Includes 16-page booklet.
Tracklisting
Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach
Dinah Washington
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Thelonious Monk
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Charles Mingus
Sonny Stitt Quartet
Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
