Jelly Roll Stomp

Frank Melrose | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Black Swan
• ASIN: B000056NLX
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #306,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Whoopee Stomp

2. Whoopee Stomp

3. Rock My Soul

4. Jelly Roll Stomp

5. Market Street Jive

6. Piano Breakdown

7. Whoopee Stomp

8. Distant Moan

9. The Hartwell Blues

10. Hammond Boogie

11. The Boy In The Boat

12. Cosmics

13. Josephine

14. Farewell Blues

15. Sugar Foot Strut

16. Laughing At You - Slow

17. Laughing At You - Fast

18. Opus #1, Sans Melody

19. Opus #1, Sans Melody

20. Can't Believe

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chicago Barrelhouse Piano, October 13, 2001

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B. D. Tutt (London, UK.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jelly Roll Stomp (Audio CD)

This is a fascinating album of solo and band recordings by the Jelly Roll Morton - influenced barrelhouse pianist Frank Melrose, drawn from the collection of legendary Chicago jazz fan John Steiner.

Tracks 1 - 8 are 1929-30 commercial recordings, some well known but including rare alternate takes. All have a strong Morton flavour, combined with a percussive barrelhouse attack. Tracks 14-15 , "Farewell Blues" and "Sugar Foot Strut" are delightful small band jazz from 1939, featuring some magnificent washboard work. Tracks 16 - 21 are from a 6 piece band recorded on the obscure Signature label in 1941, and suffer from some heavy bass saxophone work.

For Melrose fans, the highlight of this CD is tracks 8 -13, six solos from 1936-40 only one of which has been released previously. They show how Melrose had developed from his earlier solos, becoming more deeply blues influenced, showing stride touches in "The Boy in the Boat", and ability in the novelty piano genre in "Cosmics".

Recommended for all those interested in barrelhouse piano and 1920s - 1930s Chicago jazz.

4.0 out of 5 stars good foot stompin piano, January 1, 2008

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Lee. Strang "FoMoCo fan" (plattsburg, mo.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jelly Roll Stomp (Audio CD)

if you like original really good foot stompin piano music, this is it. just too bad they didn,t remaster some of the tracks because they sound like they were recorded from half wore out 78's

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rare and important to Jelly Roll Morton fans, January 1, 2003

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Robert Aukerman (Tarzana, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jelly Roll Stomp (Audio CD)

Kansas City Frank Melrose is said to play in the style of Jelly Roll Morton and to a degree he does. Melrose is in no way as inventive as Morton and by way of comparison Melrose displays a limited musical vocabulary. The recording do however drip authenticity as an example of solo stride piano as played in the Kansas City, and Chicago clubs of the era. Unfortunately little effort went into improving the quality of the primitive original recordings when the CD was mastered. Frank deserved better treatment