July 13, 2015

5 Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers “Black Bottom Stomp” 1926

Dave Brubeck said of Morton (1885-1941), “You can’t really call today’s jazz progressive, because Jelly Roll Morton was doing the same thing thirty years ago” (The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz). Listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. 

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