Artist Spotlight

Show 67: Jelly Roll Morton's Legacy

This show centers the hot piano and early jazz side of the blues, where Jelly Roll Morton stands in the middle but never alone. It makes the case that blues was baked into early jazz from the jump: in the piano touch, the bent phrasing, and the way New Orleans and Chicago players carried the feeling forward.

Host Narration

I'm your host. For today's 67th episode of the CC Blues Show, we will be exploring the music and legacy of New Orleans' most famous jazzman, Ferdinand Joseph Morton, aka Jelly Roll Morton. Up first is Mr. Morton's tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the twentieth century, entitled "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say," with Morton himself singing and the incomparable Sidney Bechet on the cornet. Here it is.

38Tracks

25Artists

5Theme Tags

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SeriesArtist Spotlight

Tagsearly jazzpiano bluesNew Orleansprewarclassic blues

Genresragtimejazzswing musicboogie-woogiebig band

Tracklist

#	Track	Artist
1	I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say	Jelly Roll Morton
2	32-20 Blues	Roosevelt Sykes
3	Ain't Misbehavin'	Fats Waller
4	Jelly Roll Blues	Jelly Roll Morton
5	Come Back, Sweet Papa	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
6	I Want Every Bit of It	Bessie Smith
7	Wolverine Blues	Jelly Roll Morton
8	Salute To Basie	Sammy Price
9	If I Could Be With You bridge	James P. Johnson
10	Dead Man Blues bridge	Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers
11	Honeysuckle Rose	Django Reinhardt;Benny Carter;Hawkins C. All Star Jam Band
12	Pinetop's Boogie Woogie	Clarence "Pinetop" Smith
13	Speakeasy	Clarence Williams & His Orchestra
14	Big Lip Blues	Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven
15	Cannon Ball Blues (Take 2)	Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers
16	Heah Me Talkin' To Ya?	Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
17	Wild Man Blues	Johnny Dodds
18	Beale Street Blues bridge	Jelly Roll Morton
19	Egyptian Fantasy bridge	Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers
20	Cannon Ball Rag	Ben Bernie and His Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra
21	Mama's Gone Goodbye	Bunk Johnson
22	Texas Moaner Blues	Clarence Williams
23	Rock Your Blues Away	Isham Jones
25	S.K. Blues, Pt. 1	Big Joe Turner
26	West End Blues	Jelly Roll Morton
27	Solace	Billy Taylor
28	T.N.T. bridge	Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra
29	Ain't cha coming home bridge	Lionel Hampton
30	Low Gravy	Jelly Roll Morton
31	Flat Foot	Johnny Dodds
32	Alexander's Ragtime Band	Bessie Smith
33	You've Been a Good Ole Wagon	Bessie Smith
34	Get Low-Down Blues	Bennie Moten
35	Savoy Blues	Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five
36	St. James Infirmary	Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five
37	Smoke House Blues	Jelly Roll Morton
38	Georgia Swing	Jelly Roll Morton
	Melancholy - 21/01/1938	Johnny Dodds;Chicago Boys