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Moving right along with the Complete Morton Project, we have an unusual offering today – one of Morton’s late period pieces which was unpublished and not recorded by Morton in his lifetime. There are a number of these which are housed in the Historic New Orleans Collection, originally in the collection of an early jazz…
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Well after last week’s Fingerbuster it was hard to decide where to go next, but we’ve returned to Jelly’s late 20s band sides for a particularly cool one, “Low Gravy,” which features a really nice second strain melody originally played by Albert Nicholas and faithfully recreated for us by David this week. This one, like…
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Well, the year is really moving along as we’ve reached week 20 of the Complete Morton Project! To celebrate, we’re featuring Morton’s fast-paced showpiece “Fingerbuster”! We figured it would be pretty awkward to play the melody on clarinet so we’ve busted out the bass saxophone again to accompany the somewhat silly but undeniably exciting piano…
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The Complete Morton Project is chugging along into spring here and we’ve brought out the bass saxophone again for one of Jelly’s earliest tunes, “New Orleans Blues.” It’s another example of the way in which Morton took the blues form and created a composition with it, full of interesting and distinctive variations and a nice…
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This weeks Complete Jelly Roll Morton selections with David Horniblow feature an early and a late tune – starting off with “Grandpa’s Spells,” one of the early tunes he recorded as a solo in 1923 and again with his Red Hot Peppers in 1926. It’s a great three-strain composition and features a hilarious sound effect…
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This week’s Complete Morton Project entries feature the first outing so far of the project with David on the mighty bass saxophone! And we’re starting off with “Jungle Blues,” a unique tune in the Morton songbook as it only has one chord! Twenty years before Miles Davis started recording one chord tunes, here we have…
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This week’s Complete Morton Project selections with David Horniblow kick off with “Milenberg Joys,” an interesting early Morton tune, apparently partially based on another tune of his called “Golden Leaf Strut.” This tune was listed as being composed by Morton and two members of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Leon Rappolo and Paul Mares…but then again…
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Today’s selections for the Complete Morton Project (full info) are two of Morton’s absolute best compositions! In addition to the anthemic Mr. Jelly Lord, we’re starting it off with “Froggie Moore,” a rag he wrote in his early years and dedicated to a vaudeville performer and acquaintance of Morton’s called Frog-Eye Moore. This classic tune…
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This weeks Morton selections (with David Horniblow – complete project info) start off with one of Jelly’s best tunes and a shining example of the “Spanish Tinge,” the original “Latin Jazz,” if you will. Morton’s music was influenced by a wide variety of sounds in early 20th century New Orleans, and the rhythmic feel he…
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This week’s Morton tunes (full info on project here) feature one of his best hot stomps and a contrasting mournful bluesy tune with a slightly unusual arrangement. “Kansas City Stomp” is one of Morton’s early tunes, which he first recorded in 1923 for Gennett but was likely written earlier, around 1919. When he played it…
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