The Complete Library of Congress Recordings

The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
Box set by Jelly Roll Morton
Released September 27, 2005
Recorded May–December 1938
Genre Jazz
Length 539:03
Label Rounder Records
Producer Jeffrey Greenberg and
Anna Lomax Wood
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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 and Best Album Notes.

The set is mainly made up of recordings made by noted musicologist and Morton biographer Alan Lomax, who conducted a series of interviews with Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938. The interviews consisted of Morton's stories about the early days of jazz, as well as a number of piano performances.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "I'm Alabama Bound" – 4:03
  2. "Time in Mobile" – 4:13
  3. "King Porter Stomp" – 4:06
  4. "The Story of 'King Porter Stomp'" – 3:53
  5. "Jelly Roll's Background" – 4:22
  6. "Music Lessons" – 4:05
  7. "Miserere" – 4:05
  8. "The Stomping Grounds" – 4:15
  9. "The Style of Sammy Davis" – 4:17
  10. "Tony Jackson Was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium" – 4:00
  11. "Poor Alfred Wilson" – 4:02
  12. "Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun" – 4:20
  13. "New Orleans was a Free and Easy Place" – 4:06
  14. "The Story of Aaron Harris" – 4:06

Disc 2

  1. "The Story of Aaron Harris, continued / Aaron Harris Blues" – 4:05
  2. "Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot" – 4:10
  3. "The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles" – 4:04
  4. "The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot, continued" – 4:04
  5. "Game Kid Blues" – 3:57
  6. "New Orleans Funerals" – 4:17
  7. "Funeral Marches" – 4:11
  8. "Oh! Didn't He Ramble" – 4:07
  9. "Tiger Rag, third, fourth, and fifth strains" – 4:02
  10. "Tiger Rag / Panama" – 4:02
  11. "The Right Tempo is the Accurate Tempo" – 4:39
  12. "Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp" – 4:31
  13. "Kansas City Stomp, continued" – 4:34
  14. "Slow Swing and 'Sweet Jazz Music'" – 4:32
  15. "Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law" – 4:22
  16. "Hesitation Blues" – 4:30

Disc 3

  1. "My Gal Sal" – 3:51
  2. "The St. Louis Scene" – 4:09
  3. "Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans style" – 4:19
  4. "Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis" – 4:19
  5. "Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis, continued" – 4:23
  6. "New Orleans Blues" – 3:58
  7. "Winin' Boy Blues" – 3:45
  8. "Winin' Boy Blues, continued" – 4:24
  9. "The Anamule Dance" – 3:46
  10. "The Anamule Dance, continued" – 4:19
  11. "The Great Buddy Bolden / Buddy Bilden's Blues" – 4:11
  12. "The Great Buddy Bolden, continued" – 4:11
  13. "Mr. Jelly Lord" – 4:09
  14. "How Jelly Roll Got His Name" – 4:14
  15. "Original Jelly Roll Blues" – 4:09
  16. "Honky Tonk Blues" – 4:07

Disc 4

  1. "Real Tough Boys" – 4:31
  2. "Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate" – 4:33
  3. "Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas" – 4:20
  4. "See See Rider" – 4:24
  5. "Parading with the Broadway Swells" – 4:22
  6. "Fights and Weapons" – 4:27
  7. "Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs" – 4:25
  8. "Jelly's Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale" – 4:14
  9. "Jelly's Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena" – 4:34
  10. "Jelly's Travels: From Helena to Memphis" – 4:23
  11. "In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy" – 4:24
  12. "Benny Frenchy's Tune, continued" – 4:23
  13. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" – 4:15
  14. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, continued" – 4:14
  15. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, part 3" – 4:14
  16. "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, concluded" – 4:35

Disc 5

  1. "The Dirty Dozen" – 4:30
  2. "The Murder Ballad, part 1" – 4:05
  3. "The Murder Ballad, part 2" – 4:17
  4. "The Murder Ballad, part 3" – 4:29
  5. "The Murder Ballad, part 4" – 4:19
  6. "The Murder Ballad, part 5" – 4:15
  7. "The Murder Ballad, part 6" – 4:29
  8. "The Murder Ballad, part 7" – 4:32
  9. "Fickle Fay Creep" – 3:17
  10. "Jungle Blues" – 3:43
  11. "King Porter Stomp" – 2:55
  12. "Sweet Peter" – 3:04
  13. "Hyena Stomp" – 3:32
  14. "Wolverine Blues, begun" – 3:45
  15. "Wolverine Blues, concluded" – 4:04
  16. "State And Madison" – 3:48
  17. "The Pearls, begun" – 3:28
  18. "The Pearls, concluded" – 3:35

Disc 6

  1. "Bert Williams" – 3:41
  2. "Freakish" – 3:59
  3. "Pep" – 3:32
  4. "The Georgia Skin Game" – 3:54
  5. "The Georgia Skin Game, continued" – 3:03
  6. "The Georgia Skin Game, conclusion" – 3:19
  7. "Ungai Hai" – 4:09
  8. "New Orleans Blues" – 4:07
  9. "The Spanish Tinge" – 4:13
  10. "Improving Spanish Tempos" – 4:06
  11. "Creepy Feeling, concluded" – 4:28
  12. "The Crave" – 4:37
  13. "Mamanita" – 4:12
  14. "C'était N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc" – 4:21
  15. "Spanish Swat" – 4:21
  16. "Ain't Misbehavin'" – 4:11
  17. "I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff" – 4:11
  18. "Michigan Water Blues" – 3:51

Disc 7

  1. "Winin' Boy Blues" – 3:45
  2. "Winin' Boy Blues, continued" – 4:24
  3. "Boogie Woogie Blues" – 4:21
  4. "Buddy Bertrand's Blues, continued / Mamie's Blues" – 4:25
  5. "When the Hot Stuff Came In" – 8:40
  6. "The First Hot Arrangements" – 9:00
  7. "The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café" – 7:57
  8. "At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles" – 9:54
  9. "Little Liza Jane, continued / On the West Coast" – 9:45
  10. "In the Publishing Business" – 8:50

Disc 8

  1. "Original Jelly Roll Blues" – 1:51
  2. "Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District" – 1:22
  3. "Hot Bands and Creole Tunes" – 4:29
  4. "Eh, La Bas" – 2:02
  5. "Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element" – 3:32
  6. "Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden" – 3:17
  7. "High Society" – 2:15
  8. "Sporting Life Costumes" – 1:38
  9. "Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician" – 2:23
  10. "Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting that Drive" – 4:28
  11. "Jelly Roll's Compositions" – 3:22
  12. "How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar" – 2:20
  13. "Guitar Blues" – 2:17
  14. "Bad Men and Pimps" – 3:38
  15. "The Story of the Coon Blues" – 1:33
  16. "Coon Blues" – 2:22
  17. "Jazz is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades" – 5:25
  18. "Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District" – 3:40
  19. "The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" – Improvising and Reading Music" – 3:23
  20. "Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best" – 6:17

Credits

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review

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