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Complete Recorded Works 1926-1930 | 
| Artist: Jelly Roll Morton
Label: Jsp
Category: Music
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 16147
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6 x 0.3
UPC: 788065900328
EAN: 0788065900328
ASIN: B00004WK09
Release Date: June 18, 2001
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Black Bottom Stomp | | • | Smoke House Blues | | • | Chant | | • | Sidewalk Blues | | • | Dead Man Blues | | • | Steamboat Stomp | | • | Someday Sweetheart | | • | Grandpa's Spells | | • | Original Jelly Roll Blues | | • | Doctor Jazz | | • | Cannon Ball Blues | | • | Hyena Stomp | | • | Billy Goat Stomp | | • | Wild Man Blues | | • | Jungle Blues | | • | Beale Street Blues | | • | Pearls | | • | Wolverine Blues | | • | Mr. Jelly Lord |
Disc 2
| • | Red Hot Pepper | | • | Deep Creek | | • | Pep | | • | Seattle Hunch | | • | Frances (Fat Frances) | | • | Freakish | | • | Burnin' The Iceberg | | • | Courthouse Bump | | • | Pretty Lil | | • | Sweet Aneta Mine | | • | New Orleans Bump | | • | Down My Way | | • | Try Me Out | | • | Tank Town Bump | | • | Sweet Peter | | • | Jersey Joe | | • | Mississippi Mildred | | • | Mint Julep | | • | Smilin' The Blues Away | | • | Turtle Twist | | • | My Little Dixie Home | | • | That's Like It Ought To Be |
Disc 3
| • | Each Day | | • | If Someone Would Only Love Me | | • | That'll Never Do | | • | I'm Looking For A Little Bluebird | | • | Little Lawrence | | • | Harmony Blues | | • | Fussy Mabel | | • | Ponchatrain | | • | Oil Well | | • | Load Of Coal | | • | Crazy Chords | | • | Primrose Stomp | | • | Low Gravy | | • | Strokin' Away | | • | Blue Blood Blues | | • | Mushmouth Shuffle | | • | Gambling Jack | | • | Fickle Day Creep |
Disc 4
| • | Chant | | • | Sidewalk Blues | | • | Dead Man Blues | | • | Someday Sweetheart | | • | Grandpa's Spells | | • | Original Jelly Roll Blues | | • | Cannon Ball Blues | | • | Hyena Stomp | | • | Billy Goat Stomp | | • | Wild Man Blues | | • | Jungle Blues | | • | Beale Street Blues | | • | Pearls | | • | Wolverine Blues | | • | Georgia Swing | | • | Kansas City Stomps | | • | Shoe Shiner's Drag | | • | Boogaboo | | • | Shreveport | | • | Mournful Serenade |
Disc 5
| • | Shreveport | | • | Seattle Hunch | | • | Freakish | | • | Burnin' The Iceberg | | • | Courthouse Bump | | • | Pretty Lil | | • | Sweet Anita Mine | | • | New Orleans Bump | | • | Tank Town Bump | | • | Sweet Peter | | • | Jersey Joe | | • | Mississippi Mildred | | • | Each Day | | • | Oil Well | | • | Load Of Coal | | • | Crazy Chords | | • | Primrose Stomp | | • | Strokin' Away | | • | Blue Blood Blues | | • | Gambling Jack |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Morton, born in 1890, was the first true jazz composer. His great talent lay in creating small-band music which sounded so natural that you could almost believe it had been improvised on the spot. But when you listen more closely, you realise that no band could ever improvise music as perfectly proportioned and well balanced as that. He created his music with the musicians around him, not like an architect planning a building, but like a gardener trimming and training naturally growing plants. This five-CD box contains everything Morton recorded at the peak of his career, between 1926 and 1930. The bulk of it is band music by his Red Hot Peppers, with a scattering of piano solos, trios, quartets and some larger ensembles. It took years for the producers to collect the best possible original copies, which were then remastered by John R. T. Davies, a world expert on the restoration of classic jazz. The result is almost certainly the best Morton edition ever produced--or likely to be. --Dave Gelly
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| Customer Reviews:
Astonishing!! October 4, 2008
Complete Recorded Works 1926-1930
Although praise is (rightly) heaped on Louis, his near contemporary Jelly Roll Morton is often mentioned in a slightly apologetic tone as if he is somehow in a different league to Armstrong. This is undoubtedly true when comparing performing talents (although Morton was a very fine pianist indeed). Jelly's true greatness lies in his band leading and arranging skills.
These discs contain a variety of styles of music, such as the sheer exuberance of the opening number (Black Bottom Stomp), the inanities of Billy Goat Stomp and little tone poems like "Mournful Serenade". Incidentally this last number is a pirated version of King Oliver's "Chimes Blues" but Morton's account is completely his own.
But above all I should mention "Deep Creek Blues". This is a profound, heartfelt blues drenched in sadness. I have never heard this number played by anyone else: indeed it seems impossible that anyone else could play it.
The remastering was done by the late John R T Davies. Need I say more on this score?
This box set thoroughly deserves five stars for everything: choice of material, performance and remastering.
Collecting Jelly Roll December 28, 2005
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I have collected Jelly Roll Morton for many years and in several formats, from vinyl to cassette to CD, and this is the best album and the most comprehensive I have found to date.Many of the tracks in the album are already in my collection, but some of them were recorded at different sessions, or are different takes, and give a fresh perspective on a familiar theme.
Wild Man Blues in particular is a very clear recording, and has obviously been cleaned up and digitally enhanced to a sparkling quality, as have most of the tracks.
There are also a few tracks featuring a trio comprising J.R. Morton, Johnny Dodds and Baby Dodds that are surprisingly fresh and crisp.
The unusual sound of a violin in a jazz band,(played by Darnell Howard?) and the cornet of George Mitchell also make this a very collectable set of CDs.
great jazz collection October 5, 2005
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
i recently bought the the 5 cd set of jelly roll morton and enjoyed them.Have always been keen on morton's great jazz recordings.
A collection from the triumphal days of traditional jazz February 19, 2001
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
This boxed set of 5 CDs has to be "5-star" value. To collect all the numbers individually would, even if possible, be ridiculously expensive as the CDs include every surviving recording made by Jelly Roll Morton over the years 1926-1930. The CDs embrace alternate takes for many of the numbers and so allow listeners to compare different versions and to trace their development.Jelly Roll Morton proclaimed himself to be the "inventor" of jazz and these CDs provide insight to his disciplined approach to recording sessions. Others have claimed to originate jazz, but the qualities demonstrated on these CDs suggest Jelly Roll Morton's self-representation may be correct. He was a great composer and the vast majority of the numbers on the CDs are his own - he was an inventive arranger as indicated by both ensemble playing and solo interjections, and different treatments with alternates on the CDs - and above all, he was clearly an inspirational bandleader as he surrounded himself with many of the best musicians of the day as described in the discographies. The CD insert notes have a reasonable amount of background material, but about the various recordings there are detailed and informative comments. It is fascinating to listen to the numbers and read up the explanatory notes - though there is at least one error (Original Jelly Roll Blues), and some remarks are flagrantly subjective - but relevant. If there is a problem it is that there is just too much, and many collectors and jazz lovers are likely to already have tracks on "compilation" recordings or "best of" selections. Some of the recordings appear elsewhere with other names (example : Johnny Dodds) though most are Jelly Roll Morton with his Red Hot Peppers, or his Orchestra, or various Trios and other offshoots of his main groups. The real value of jazz is not in documentation but in personal experience - just as well as there are 99 tracks to comment on - but too much is hardly a criticism. As well as a "5-star" value this boxed set is a "5-star" collectors item from Jelly Roll Morton's triumphal days of traditional jazz.
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