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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 | Composer | 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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