Jelly Roll Morton

JSP Record’s Jelly Roll Morton: 1926-1930 has excellent transfers of all of the Red Hot Peppers sessions of Jelly Roll Morton, mastered by the great John R.T. Davies. For more information visit: https://www.discogs.com/Jelly-Roll-Morton-Jelly-Roll-Morton-1926-1930/release/2581655. You can easily find the CD secondhand.

For the early extreme rarities of Jelly Roll Morton’s pre-Red Hot Peppers recordings, we recommend Jazz Oracle’s Jelly Roll Morton Rarities CD which can be found at: https://upbeatmailorder.co.uk/product/jelly-roll-morton-jelly-roll-rarities-1923-1930-2/.

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Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers

George Mitchell (cnt) Kid Ory (tb) Omer Simeon (cl) Jelly Roll Morton (p) Johnny St. Cyr (bj) John Lindsay (b) Andrew Hilaire (d)

Webster Hotel, Chicago, September 15, 1926

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers

George Mitchell (cnt) Kid Ory (tb) Omer Simeon (cl) Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard (cl on “Sidewalk Blues” and “Dead Man Blues”) Jelly Roll Morton (p) Johnny St. Cyr (bj) John Lindsay (b) Andrew Hilaire (d) Marty Bloom (effects) Dialogue between Morton and St. Cyr.

Webster Hotel, Chicago, September 21, 1926

Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers

George Mitchell (cnt) Kid Ory (tb) Omer Simeon (cl [b-cl on “Someday Sweetheart”]) Jelly Roll Morton (p [vcl on “Doctor Jazz”) Johnny St. Cyr (bj,g) John Lindsay (b) Andrew Hilaire (d) Clarence Black (vln on “Someday Sweatheart”), Wright Smith or Darnell Howard (vln on “Someday Sweetheart”)

Webster Hotel, Chicago, December 16, 1926

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers

George Mitchell (cnt) Gerald Reeves (tb) Johnny Dodds (cl) Stump Evans (as) Jelly Roll Morton (p) Bud Scott (g) Quinn Wilson (tu) Baby Dodds (d) Lew LeMar (effects on “Hyena Stomp” and “Billy Goat Stomp”)

952 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, June 4, 1927

Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers

George Mitchell (cnt) Gerald Reeves (tb) Johnny Dodds (cl) Stump Evans (as) Jelly Roll Morton (p) Bud Scott (g) Quinn Wilson (tu) Baby Dodds (d)

952 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, June 10, 1927

Jelly Roll Morton (p) Johnny Dodds (cl) Baby Dodds (d)