Wikio - Jelly Roll Morton

Ben's Revives Jelly Roll Morton's D.C. Connection (Raw Fisher)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:54:40 GMT

Last week's 50th anniversary bashes for Ben's Chili Bowl were a blast. From Bill Cosby's on-stage quips about the verve with which the servers at Ben's whap the chili onto the half-smoke, to Roberta Flack's still-distinctive stylings, to a gathering of the District's political elite in a tent behind the Lincoln Theater, Ben and Virginia Ali demonstrated yet again that their hot dog stand on U Street...

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The world of Carla Bley (The Guardian Music blog)

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:00:00 GMT

... she's widely accepted as being in the same league for large-scale jazz composition as legends like Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans and George Russell - artists who could intuitively cross composition and improvisation, pop music and art music, and compose with particular favourite improvisers in mind.She has won Guggenheims, Oscars du Disque De...

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Album: Various Artists, The Essential Guide to New Orleans (Union Square) (The Independent)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Retailing for well under a tenner, this has to be the bargain of the year: a three-CD set doing exactly what it says on the sleeve, tracking the development of America's most fertile music city, from the hot jazz of Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton, through the classic rock and R&B of the Fifties and Sixties, to the swamp-funk that has defined New Orleans' subsequent output....

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Jelly Roll Syrah Santa Ynez Valley 2006 (PoppingCorks.com)

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:50:59 GMT

Chateaume posted a review: If you like a Syrah that might just bite you back well then I have the perfect wine...Oh yeah it's Jelly Roll as in, "Jelly Roll Morton". The wine maker Jim Knight loves Jazz or so I am guessing... The aromas jump out of the glass ready to send you into a state of a total animalistic orgasmic state from which it is so sad to return. Black...

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Franz Jackson: virtuoso swing-era tenor saxophonist (Times Online)

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:31:03 GMT

Franz R. Jackson was born in Rock Island, Illinois, and studied at the Chicago Musical College before getting his first professional break with Ammons. In the 1920s Chicago was the capital of the jazz world, so as he was growing up Jackson heard at first hand all the great names from King Oliver and Louis Armstrong to Jelly Roll Morton and Zutty Singleton. A proficient sight reader,...

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More Death Shows: Cold Case ((en)Gender)

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:23:09 GMT

... from all the different episodes . Like Episode 21, “Torn,” which has music by Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton, or Episode 6, “Static” with Gene Vincent and Little Richard. Musicheads, do check it out. They show hours & hours of it late at night on TNT.

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Freeze Frame! - Dancing With the Firehouse Five Plus Two (2719 Hyperion)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:32:00 GMT

"The roots of the band germinated in the early 1940's when some of us at the Disney Studio used to gather in my office at lunchtime to listen to my records of such jazz legends as King Oliver, Baby Dodds, Jelly Roll Morton, and Louis Armstrong. Since most of our little nucleus of old-time jazz lovers had played various musical instruments back in school, we decided to really get...

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Jelly Roll Morton - The Story of 'I'm Alabama Bound' (The Hype Machine)

Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:41:00 GMT

in post Fifty states: Alabama Bound from Star Maker Machine .

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RADIO/PODCAST: Live from Blue Lake: Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings (All About Jazz)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:08:57 GMT

The finale of this season's "Live From Blue Lake" radio concert series is June 19th at 10 p.m. with Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings playing the arrangements and transcriptions by pianist James DaPogny of music from the 1930's when jazz pioneers Jelly Roll Morton and King Oliver as well as a young Duke Ellington began to explore sections of instruments, enlarging the instrumentation...

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Mr Jelly Lord (Shiraz Socialist)

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:27:31 GMT

... Lomax’s extraordinary series of interviews, for the Library of Congress in 1938, with Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton. By 1938 Morton was a semi-forgotten figure running a failing nightclub in Washington DC and without a recording contract. His brief glory days, in the mid- to late-1920’s were long behind him. His black audience had deserted him for more modern music,...

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Retro TV W/C 6th June 2008 (Retro To Go)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:06:59 GMT

... this week has to be The Archive Hour: The Dream Time of Jazz (BBC Radio 4. Saturday 7th, 8pm) Jelly Roll Morton's definitive oral history of jazz and bawdy Americana, as told to musicologist Alan Lomax while sat at a piano at the Library of Congress in 1938.Friday 6th JuneTVDempsey and Makepeace - ITV 3. 6.50pm - 7.55pmDempsey becomes obsessed with a violent gunman who caused...

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Fraktured Fairytales plus Discount Jellyroll (Crooked Timber)

Sat, 24 May 2008 11:29:35 GMT

... you or not. I have one significant, non-typographic bargain to report. Amazon has a download of Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings for only $19.95. It's out of print and the cheapest used copy I can find is $150. So I consider that a good deal.

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David Remnick’s Essential Jazz (92Y Blog)

Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:44 GMT

... “The Classic Early Recordings in Chronological Order” (JSP, 2000; tracks recorded 1934-39). 10. Jelly Roll Morton, “Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930” (JSP, 2000). The most recent recording on the esteemed list of 100? That would be our very own Bill Charlap, director of the Y's long-running Jazz in July series , with ” Live at the Village Vanguard .” See the...

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David Sánchez colors his music with a 'Latin tinge' (New York Newsday)

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:27:40 GMT

When Jelly Roll Morton, who played a pivotal role in inventing how to play jazz piano, spoke of using a "Latin tinge," he was referring to a certain rhythmic pattern called the habanera, that crept into his style. Eighty or so years later, we can speak of the Latin tinge in more metaphorical terms, since "Latin" music has become so intertwined with jazz and other American pop music....

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All That Jazz..and a rumored Vampire or two. (Travelblog)

Thu, 15 May 2008 07:33:27 GMT

... and lady singing the blues. Traditionally, the New Orleans style of jazz, with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bichet among its ranking founders, is a music to be danced to, with a swinging, syncopated, harmonic rhythm. The band consists of a trumpet, a clarinet and a trombone, as well as some sort of rhythm section, often just a string base or these days, a base...

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Spring and all mix... (wordsandmusic)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:44:00 GMT

Things have been a trifle hectic since I got back - but here is my seasonal mix, prepared before I left for Berlin - and forgotten about until about half an hour ago... More mp3s and the usual guff tomorrow - but for now here is the tracklist for: Spring and All (thanks WCW) 1. Clifford Thornton – Tout le pouvoir au peuple 2. Duke Ellington - Moonbow 3. Georgia Ann Muldrow – New Orleans 4. Jelly...

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Friday Random Ten (Fifteen Years Clean And Sober Edition) (harp and sword)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:27:00 GMT

... get on to the soundtrack for the morning. No Seas Tonta Mujer - - - Flaco Jimenez The Crave - - - Jelly Roll Morton If I Should Fall From Grace With God - - - The Pogues I Ain't Always Been Faithful - - - Linda Ronstadt (live bootleg me on guitar) Childish Things - - - James McMurtry Amsterdam - - - Jacques Brel Sweet Georgia Brown - - - Django Sweet Lorraine - - - Patty Griffen...

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Classic Jazz Orchestra, The Tall Ship, Glasgow (The Herald )

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:26:12 GMT

... band was in party mode, opening the evening's festivities with sensational versions of Sunday and Jelly Roll Morton's The Pearls.Both numbers showed off the CJO's strengths: the slick and stylish ensemble playing, the top-notch soloists and the witty arrangements which evoke famous recordings but filter them through a more modern sensibility.It wasn't smooth sailing all the...

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Bass Clarinet: Die Enttauschung Eponymous, Achille Succi, Jason Stein, Andrew Robson/Paul Cutlan, Le Trio de Clarinettes and Edmund Welles (All About Jazz)

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 06:06:52 GMT

... though for much longer, appearing in 19th century operatic works and even some early jazz by Jelly Roll Morton and Benny Goodman. What is evident though is that almost 45 years after his death, Dolphy, who himself was a tripler, is no longer the only model. The bass clarinet now can be featured as part of a frontline, leading a traditional trio, in a reed duo or trio or even...

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Dream Jukebox: The Thirties (Harmony's Weblog)

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:18:04 GMT

... recording features the great Lester Young as an added bonus. “I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say”–Jelly Roll Morton (1936) Jelly Roll’s piano “fingerbreakers” are perfect for a jukebox, but I can think of no better late-night disc to spin than this Jelly Roll Morton vocal. “I’ve Found a New Baby”–The Mills Brothers (1932) Four guys singing...

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