Jelly Roll Morton - Kansas City Stomp - The Library Of Congress Recordings, Vol. 1

Tracklist

1	I'm Alabama Bound (No. 1)	1:34
2	I'm Alabama Bound (No. 2)	1:25
3	King Porter Stomp (No. 1)	3:17
4	You Can Have It, I Don't Want It	0:40
5	The Miserere ("Straight", Begun)	1:20
6	The Miserere ("Straight", Concluded)	1:08
7	Sammy Davis's Style	0:49
8	Pretty Baby	1:09
9	(Tony Jackson's) Naked Dance	0:45
10	Honky Tonk Blues	3:32
11	Levee Man Blues	2:37
12	Aaron Harris Blues	3:41
13	Game Kid Blues (Begun)	1:25
14	Game Kid Blues (Concluded)	1:09
15	Buddy Carter Rag	0:47
16	Steal Away / Neare, My God, To Thee	2:17
17	Flee as a Bird to the Mountain	1:50
18	Oh! Didn't He Ramble (Begun)	0:37
19	Oh! Didn't He Ramble (Concluded)	1:02
20	Tiger Rag, The Quadrille (Begun)	1:08
21	Tiger Rag, The Quadrille (Concluded)	2:35
22	Tiger Rag (Begun)	1:01
23	Tiger Rag (Concluded)	2:23
24	Panama (Incomplete)	1:24
25	Kansas City Stomp (Begun)	1:39
26	Kansas City Stomp (Concluded)	1:09
27	(Darktown) Strutters' Ball	0:57
28	Sweet Jazz Music	1:40
29	Salty Dog	2:02
30	Hesitating Blues	4:32
31	My Gal Sal	3:57
32	Randall's Tune	0:51
33	Maple Leaf Rag (St. Louis Tempo, Begun)	3:22
34	Maple Leaf Rag (St. Louis Tempo, Concluded)	0:41
35	Maple Leaf Rag (Morton Style)	2:37
36	The Miserere ("Swung")	2:57
37	Low-Down Blues (New Orleans Blues)	4:00

Credits

• Edited By – James Dapogny
• Mastered By [Digital] – Mike Donaldson
• Piano, Vocals – Jelly Roll Morton
• Recorded By – Alan Lomax

Notes

Recorded between May 23 and June 7, 1938
in Coolidge Auditorium, Library Of Congress, Washington DC.
Released by permission of the Estate of Jelly Roll Morton and with the cooperation of the Library of Congress.

Jelly Roll Morton, the first great jazz artist, made these Library of Congress recordings in 1938, at the behest of Alan Lomax of the Archive of Folk Song. In them, Morton performs not only his own music, singing and playing the piano, but recreates the styles and repertoires - folk tunes, blues, marches, ragtime, opera he heard during his Storyville days and later wide travels and colorful life. Collected here are the musical performances from this series, for the first time complete, uncensored, and pitch-corrected to compensate for problems with the original recording equipment.

Category on CD noted as RCD 1091

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