Jelly Roll Morton - The Chant

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Jelly Roll Morton
The Chant

Compil. IT 2010 on Monk label
Jazz

The father of jazz piano, Jelly Roll Morton got his start playing piano in the bordellos of New Orleans in the nineteen-teens, but soon began traveling around the South. He spent five years on the West Coast where he became very popular, but soon moved to Chicago to take advantage of its burgeoning jazz scene. After gaining his first hit in 1923 with “Wolverine Blues”, he soon recorded several classic sides for Victor with a New Orleans-style band made up of some of the top sidemen of his day, called the Red Hot Peppers. These recordings, made in Chicago in 1926-27 are from that classic period and are some of the finest examples of the “Hot” style. A1, A2, A3 recorded in Chicago, September 15, 1926 A4, A5, A6 recorded in Chicago, September 12, 1926 A7, A8, B1, B2, B3 recorded in Chicago, December 16, 1926 B4, B5, B6, B7 recorded in Chicago, June 4, 1927

Musicians

	Jelly Roll Morton p, voc, 1890-1941 US piano, vocals, album by
	Johnny St. Cyr bj, g, 1890-1966 US banjo
	Omer Simeon cl, 1902-1959 US clarinet
	George Mitchell cor, tr, *1899 US cornet
	John Lindsay b, 1896-1950 US double bass
	Andrew Hilaire dr, 1899-1941 US drums
	Kid Ory tb, 1886-1973 US trombone

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Duration
1	Black Bottom Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	3:12
2	Smoke-House Blues (Beale Street Blues)	Jelly Roll Morton	3:27
3	The Chant	Jelly Roll Morton	3:11
4	Sidewalk Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:33
5	Dead Man Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:18
6	Steamboat Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	3:12
7	Someday Sweetheart	Jelly Roll Morton	3:34
8	Grandpa's Spells	Jelly Roll Morton	2:57
9	Original Jelly-Roll Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:09
10	Doctor Jazz	Jelly Roll Morton	3:28
11	Cannon Ball Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:36
12	Hyena Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	3:12
13	Billy Goat Stomp	Jelly Roll Morton	3:32
14	Wild Man Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:08
15	Jungle Blues	Jelly Roll Morton	3:31

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To all the music fans that are contributing on Discogs, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. Thanks to Franz Flückiger for providing Storygram used to visualize band membership.

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