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539:03 (8 hours, 59 minutes and 3 seconds) Label. Rounder Records. Producer. Jeffrey Greenberg and. Anna Lomax Wood. Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings is a 2005 box set of recordings from jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton. The set spans 128 tracks over eight CDs. It won two Grammy Awards in 2006, Best Historical Album ...
Dec 6, 2005 · Jelly Roll Morton was recorded by Alan Lomax in the Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress in 1938. These selections include Morton both playing his music and talking about its roots. 'The ...
New Orleans composer, pianist, and occasional pool shark Jelly Roll Morton was one of the key figures in the creation of jazz. Alan Lomax was a visionary young folklorist. Together, at the Library of Congress in 1938, they made the first recorded oral history in jazz. Jelly Roll’s picaresque and remarkably detailed stories of the milieu of ...
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In 1938, Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe, also known as Jelly Roll Morton (1885-1941), sat down at a piano in the Library of Congress to record the first oral history of jazz. Seated nearby, asking questions and operating a small portable disc recorder, sat Alan Lomax, 23-year-old assistant in charge of the Library's Archive of American Folksong. Writer and jazz scholar John Szwed and pianist Dave ...
Eight CD's. $115. In 1938, the New Orleans pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton talked and sang into a microphone for about a month and a half, in an oral history project conducted by Alan Lomax ...
4:06. Jelly Roll Morton - The 1900 New Orleans Riot, Pt. 2 & Game Kid Blues, Pt. 1. 4:06. Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Rag (The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax) 4:23. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2006 CD release of "The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings By Alan Lomax" on Discogs.
Jan 8, 2014 · "In his Library of Congress recordings, Jelly Roll Morton demonstrated an illuminating comparison of two ways of playing Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" - On...
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