1926-28: Great Orig Performances

Jelly Roll Morton | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 18, 1997)
• Original Release Date: October 15, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Louisiana Red Hot
• ASIN: B000003A2A
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,336 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Black Bottom Stomp

2. Smoke-House Blues

3. The Chant

4. Sidewalk Blues

5. Dead Man Blues

6. Steamboat Stomp

7. Someday, Sweetheart

8. Grandpa's Spells

9. Original Jelly Roll Blues

10. Doctor Jazz

11. Cannon Ball Blues

12. Hyena Stomp

13. Billy Goat Stomp

14. Wild Man Blues

15. Jungle Blues

16. Beale Street Blues

17. The Pearls

18. Wolverine Blues

19. Midnight Mama

20. Mr. Jelly Lord

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent brief selection, July 19, 2002

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bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1926-28: Great Orig Performances (Audio CD)

Robert Parker has done his usual superb job of remastering, clean brilliant sound with a minimum of surface noise.
He has assembled a collection that may be the best available on a single CD. These pieces show us Morton at his recorded peak.
Listeners captivated by this CD may want to consider the 5-CD set on JSP remastered by John R. T. Davies which covers most of the ensemble recordings between 1926 and 1930.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars N Batterby, May 10, 2002

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Norman Batterby "legnano" (Cheltenham, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1926-28: Great Orig Performances (Audio CD)

My first taste of Jelly Roll Morton was in the late forties, with a 7" EP of his "Smoke House Blues", superbly re-engineered on this CD along with so many other gems: especially Sidewalk Blues, Wild Man Blues and Steamboat Stomp. And the sterio effect is stunning.

The sleeve indicated this to be the start of a series of "sterio" Morton, so lets have more of him from this label. He deserves it, and so do we.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Made me dance and stomp- and I'm an accountant!, January 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 1926-28: Great Orig Performances (Audio CD)

Jelly Roll for President! Dead? Well, yes but that's why he's UNIMPEACHABLE! This is a collection of 20 songs from the public domain, digitized by an Australian sound engineer, Robert Parker. I played through several times and later began repeating favored tracks: Jungle Blues, Midnight Mama, Mr. Jelly Lord, the latter two with Frances Hereford on vocals really sweet. Addictive!