I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
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JELLY ROLL MORTON'S SMOKEHOUSE BLUES
This isn't at all my usual kind of music, but an enthusiast played me this track as we were sitting in his pleasant French farmhouse the other week, and it sounded terrific - full of life and sunshine, despite its title:
I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
I don't know what Robert Crumb would feel about this rare British reissue from the 1950s; maybe he owns a copy.
Jelly Roll Morton died in 1941, 20 years before his lookalike was born.
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ReplyDeleteI know what you mean about it not being the kind of music you would normally listen to, but it’s definitely worth exploring. Two CDs I’d recommend are 'Duke Ellington’s Masterpieces 1926 - 1949' and 'Larkin’s Jazz', a compilation of Philip Larkin’s favourite pieces (compiled in part by a former Hull University colleague).
It’s the sort of music I simply couldn’t hear when I was younger, but much of it now reaches pretty effortlessly across the years, especially the blues-based pieces (of which there are many).
Any connexions between traditional New Orleans jazz and Bob Dylan?!
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