Come on with it Jelly Roll, those folks who didn't like it, they will be back when they get the blues....How long do I have to wait can I get it now do I have to hesitate
@kg6iif rap is a product of what transpired during the crack era this is where rap has its roots in just like jazz and its ragtime....ur people who have the power wont let blacks like me speak easy on rap songs because this country is afraid of life, they's rather have civilization instead. so dont blame the society on blacks, blame it on the ones who have the resources to be able to manipulate what u hear and how they want u to react when u hear it. #education
@Pentagonshark666 This comment is so blatantly retarded that I can't tell if you're a troll or not. Jelly Roll Morton was a Creole, a person of color, and in the Jim Crow South would in no way be considered white (and still wouldn't be considered white by many people).
Not under Louisiana law at the time he wasn't. Look up "Creoles of Color" or "Gens de couleur libres". They had considerable privileges over other African descended people in Louisiana, but they were never considered white, and one step outside the state they became Black.
I like plenty of real hip hop by real hip hop artists, just as I enjoy Jelly Roll's music and that of "my people". I only meant by my comment that Mr. Morton had much more talent, originality and sense of humor than those sell outs you mentioned. I wasn't trying to demean or appropiate anyone's culture. It seems to me that you feel a need to claim other's creations as your exclusive birthright. You ask me what my people have created. Fuck "my people" . What have YOU or I created?
Our music exists in every form of music you listen to. What has your people created besides gregorian chant? Oh, and Ill just conclude that you are just an ignorant person who truly has not heard a true hip hop song by a true hip hop artist besides the sell outs who cater to white corporations for money.
@ninjaspit That's like me saying: "Our music (classical) exists in every form of music you listen to." It's absurd. It doesn't belong to you or me. Being a 20 year old something and having black skin doesn't make Morton's 1930s music "yours"... in the same way that having the same color skin of Bach or Beethoven doesn't make their music "mine". It doesn't belong to either of us. As much as I dislike the comment you're replying to, you're just making it worse.
@donnyforte2 Yes the music does belong to me, because it is apart of MY history. You need to ask yourself why it is that white people feel they can steal everything that isnt theres and try to make it even ground. NO it is not even grounds. My people created this music, and it is apart of my history just like gregorian chant is apart of your history. Its YOURS.
@ninjaspit It ain't mine. I'm not tied to "my race", just like I'm not tied to my nationality, but if you want isolate yourself to "race" and draw lines in the sand in the 21st century, by all means, go for it.
@ninjaspit haha......music doesnt belong to anyone because its a combination of other historical types of music (hymns) and a combination of different types of music blended in one.....also im pretty sure jelly roll morton was in the first mixed race band. I think we should give the piano back to the italians because it is theres and its THERE history.
@ninjaspit damn you are a very narrow minded person. You can't just categorize music in black or white. That's the beauty of music! If you look up the background of styles like blues, bluegrass, rock 'n roll, jazz,... you can see that it comes from different cultures influencing each other and creating whole new sounds.
@ninjaspit I don't know why I'm even going to bother chiming in, but here it goes. Gregorian chant is much more foreign to 21st century Americans than any kind of jazz. It was one manifestation of Christian worship that blossomed in Europe several hundred years ago. Jazz, on the other hand, is and has been largely heterogeneous (racially speaking) since its inception around the turn of the century. Yes, it has some roots in African musical expression, but it's a distinctly American art form.
It only took black music about ten years to degenerate into rap when you come right down to it. In 1967 they still made decent music, by 1977 the descent into braindead rap had begun and it's been all downhill from there.
We're learning about this guy in my Jazz class. We haven't gotten into Louie and Miles yet but this guys is definitely the most interesting we've gotten to yet. I just wish the teacher would focus on the artist and not the damn music notes so much.
happy st.patties day fellas, 20 years old miami born & raised, here now out by the port, first st.patties day alone. Nothing but me, my bourbon, a couple cold beers, & some good old tunes. Cheers to you all. CHEERS TO HESITATION BLUES,
This is a treasure. Thank God for recording equipment and also for people with the foresight to save this type of thing for future generations to enjoy.
Can those who are talking about something other than music go elsewhere as this comment box should be about the wonderful and influental music of the legendary Jelly Roll Morton. He is Jazz however Jazz, like rock, arose from Blues and trad music. Either way its a wonderful music style. :) And the comparison to Duke Ellington is a bit extreme. Sure he is big band but Jelly Roll came first. Like Chuck Berry to rock and roll. With him, We'd have no Beatles and many other acts. :) Take care! :)
My dad Frank Melrose, was mistaken for Morton on a recording in the early years....He was good friends with Jelly, I catch a resemblance now and then,,,This is such a treat to listen to!! They were both great pianists..
Danny Barker played with Jelly Roll at some point. When Danny was a young fella he delivered coal to the sportin' houses in Storryville and I wondered if he saw Mr Morton playing in some polished parlor back then. If so it would have been a fine inspiration for a young musician... the image of a "professor" getting payed to make music in such entertaining circumstances. Checkout the movie Pretty Baby.... seems somewhat close to a Storyville depiction. Wish I had asked Danny about that.
ya it is kind of neat. we had to listen to some songs like this for part of a school assignment so it was different to hear somehthing than what i usually listen to
This song was written by Art Gillham, Billy Smythe, and Scott Middleton (1915). But my guess is that the lyrics here were Jelly Roll's. And some of these show up in later versions. Great ragtime, though. Anyone know where I can get the lyrics?
This song was written by Art Gillham, Billy Smythe, and Scott Middleton (1915). But my guess is that the lyrics here were Jelly Roll's. And some of these show up in later versions. Great ragtime, though.
Beautiful. He claims it as his and he was writing and playing blues earlier than most anyone. Claims Winin' Boy as his own too. Sweet Jelly Roll indeed.
@jor99912 Post your version of "Hesitation Blues" so we can see how easy it is for you to appropriate Jelly Roll Morton's style, which seems to be the basis on how you came to your ignorant concept of what is and isn't the blues. I can't wait to hear it!
@jor99912 Jelly Roll is usually regarded as a Jazz musician, not blues. Most jazz musicians sing Blues in jazz styles. Especially at the time. For blues in that period you should go for Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, not Jelly Roll Morton.
This recording sounds really old, older than most Jazz recordings. Im new to jazz, so be mercyfull, but im guessing he was one of the first. Still, sounds so clear and proffesional even with such primitive equipment. Love it.
@dmbassistdude he definately was one of the first, and is generally considered to be the first great jazz composer. if you're new to jazz and like this kind of orchestrated stuff, check out Duke Ellington. IMO he's the best :P
@mightyafrowhitey you call this piano and someone stumping on the ground "orchestrated stuff?"
I don't even know how you can associate Jelly Roll and Duke Ellington. Big band and dixieland jazz are two different genres, different generations, different size and different techniques; not even close! Ever heard of Jack Teagarden? Sidney Bechet? Cuz that would be comparable in period and style.
Jelly Roll probably stole most of the music and put his name on it. Good performer, though.
"Jelly Roll was a blues player.. He played in stride shades, ragtime shades, in stomp, spanish tinge, a bit of boogie woogie thrown in sometimes, etc etc, it wasn't until later that some of these terms were defined and applied to Morton.. Simply put Jelly Roll just "was" all of the above and several more whenever he wanted to be.... When you're playing for your job and could be outplayed in a cutting contest at any moment, you learn to be versatile.
@ReadSunsetSong Ha haaarr My favourite was the fat one who always had bags o sweeties, bullseyes and soor plooms I think, 'Help ma Boab'....dearie tut, mon.
Veo q entre tus vids fav están McLaughlin y Santana, justamente el d Autlán comenzó en el Festival de Woodstock'69 como SANTANA BLUES BAND, tan revolucionario fueron las BLUE NOTES q sin ellas no existiría el JAZZ hoy o el rock ni ambos músicos, incluso x las OCTAVAS y la rítmica afrocubana y brasileña q Jelly Roll llamó The Latin Tinge, en 68 Mahavishnu grabó con Miles Davis esa fusión nueva al jazz q claro, parece no tener q ver nada con lo actual.
Obvio q suena viejo y estàs en tu derecho d mantener tu hueva inoculada, pero nada es nuevo o viejo en el arte, existen esas BLUE NOTES y poètica d Nueva Orléans condenadas como música del demonio x los blancos d EU hace justo un siglo, pero checa Modern Jazz Guitar Style d André Bush en google books, cap 4 sobre ritmo, también Wikipedia referente a Hesitation Blues, otro gallo t cantará x lo q t gusta con Mahavishnu o Santana es + viejo q tú, lee + arriba...
meleeECI, my feelings exactly. It's so relaxed, without presuming anything. Perhaps a musician needs to be at the end of a great career to produce such a gem.
well tell me I'm wrong but I think Jelly Roll and the red hot peppers made a big step out of ragtime, dixieland to the big band sound. These people invented what we're doin' now.
Visited New Oorleans in 1959, when racism was alive and well. A book there said that the even then current meaning of "Creole," as "mixed race," was false, that "Creole" meant Caucasian. Uncertain what to believe. Please advise on double entendres: parasol, rat, cane, double twist, waterfall, stump.
There's a girl, sittin' on the stump.
I happen to know she's on the stump.
Did I hear that verse wrong or does stump have one meaning the first time and a different one the second time?
Americans can only think in black and white, im from the carribean where its normal for generations of people to look just the way jelly does, actually he resembles my grandfather. So lets stop all this silly talk and just dig on jelly!
He was Creole, but maybe he had some black in him... I don't know. At that time in New Orleans a lot of different people lived there... well like nowadays :P
Bellissima canzone...
MATTIASPANO28 5 days ago
Introduciéndome al Jazz, desde sus raíces, hermoso estilo para seguir disfrutando de la música.
luznesumdorma 1 week ago
Come on with it Jelly Roll, those folks who didn't like it, they will be back when they get the blues....How long do I have to wait can I get it now do I have to hesitate
amorelascivo 1 week ago
Magnífica grabación, como todas las que realizó junto a Alan Lomax. Gracias por compartirla.
sirjuandabicho 1 month ago
Jelly Roll didn't create jazz and he wasn't white - he was Creole. No question he was brilliant but no one thought him more brilliant than he did.
jonesie141202 1 month ago 2
i'd pay for the lyrics!
ettawhy 1 month ago
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verjinyuh 1 month ago
I have a good question:is there any videos/film clips survived where we can see
Morton himself?
Pentagonshark666 2 months ago 2
Anyone else hear the theme of Black Country Woman by Led Zeppelin...
JZJYRWO 2 months ago
@JZJYRWO Zeppelin tended to do that.
BogusMojo 1 month ago
@kg6iif rap no more pussier than hard rock! rock n roll
MrPeacemaker335 2 months ago
@kg6iif rap is a product of what transpired during the crack era this is where rap has its roots in just like jazz and its ragtime....ur people who have the power wont let blacks like me speak easy on rap songs because this country is afraid of life, they's rather have civilization instead. so dont blame the society on blacks, blame it on the ones who have the resources to be able to manipulate what u hear and how they want u to react when u hear it. #education
fradosings 2 months ago
@kg6iif good call,but Jelly Roll Morton was a white person.
Pentagonshark666 2 months ago 11
@Pentagonshark666 This comment is so blatantly retarded that I can't tell if you're a troll or not. Jelly Roll Morton was a Creole, a person of color, and in the Jim Crow South would in no way be considered white (and still wouldn't be considered white by many people).
Seraphimal 1 month ago 2
@Pentagonshark666
Not under Louisiana law at the time he wasn't. Look up "Creoles of Color" or "Gens de couleur libres". They had considerable privileges over other African descended people in Louisiana, but they were never considered white, and one step outside the state they became Black.
coy0te9 5 days ago
@kg6iif no need for racism here thanks
m4l3v0l3nt 2 months ago 4
That's some good music right there
crysb26 2 months ago
May I remind everyone that Morton was mixed? and If this music is anyone's.... it's his
KayMilDaCrucial 3 months ago
@ninjaspit
I like plenty of real hip hop by real hip hop artists, just as I enjoy Jelly Roll's music and that of "my people". I only meant by my comment that Mr. Morton had much more talent, originality and sense of humor than those sell outs you mentioned. I wasn't trying to demean or appropiate anyone's culture. It seems to me that you feel a need to claim other's creations as your exclusive birthright. You ask me what my people have created. Fuck "my people" . What have YOU or I created?
cazadordemolinos 3 months ago
@kg6iif They sold out. Damn shame
steveski74 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jelly Roll Morton
@cazadordemolinos
Our music exists in every form of music you listen to. What has your people created besides gregorian chant? Oh, and Ill just conclude that you are just an ignorant person who truly has not heard a true hip hop song by a true hip hop artist besides the sell outs who cater to white corporations for money.
ninjaspit 3 months ago
@ninjaspit That's like me saying: "Our music (classical) exists in every form of music you listen to." It's absurd. It doesn't belong to you or me. Being a 20 year old something and having black skin doesn't make Morton's 1930s music "yours"... in the same way that having the same color skin of Bach or Beethoven doesn't make their music "mine". It doesn't belong to either of us. As much as I dislike the comment you're replying to, you're just making it worse.
donnyforte2 3 months ago 3
@donnyforte2 Yes the music does belong to me, because it is apart of MY history. You need to ask yourself why it is that white people feel they can steal everything that isnt theres and try to make it even ground. NO it is not even grounds. My people created this music, and it is apart of my history just like gregorian chant is apart of your history. Its YOURS.
ninjaspit 3 months ago
@ninjaspit It ain't mine. I'm not tied to "my race", just like I'm not tied to my nationality, but if you want isolate yourself to "race" and draw lines in the sand in the 21st century, by all means, go for it.
donnyforte2 3 months ago
@ninjaspit fucking racist. you bastard, a hundred million of your people died because of the same idea you're defending, in white people's mind.
TumblingDice21 3 months ago
@ninjaspit haha......music doesnt belong to anyone because its a combination of other historical types of music (hymns) and a combination of different types of music blended in one.....also im pretty sure jelly roll morton was in the first mixed race band. I think we should give the piano back to the italians because it is theres and its THERE history.
FrankCastroAre 3 months ago
@ninjaspit damn you are a very narrow minded person. You can't just categorize music in black or white. That's the beauty of music! If you look up the background of styles like blues, bluegrass, rock 'n roll, jazz,... you can see that it comes from different cultures influencing each other and creating whole new sounds.
dhaeze 3 months ago 3
@ninjaspit I don't know why I'm even going to bother chiming in, but here it goes. Gregorian chant is much more foreign to 21st century Americans than any kind of jazz. It was one manifestation of Christian worship that blossomed in Europe several hundred years ago. Jazz, on the other hand, is and has been largely heterogeneous (racially speaking) since its inception around the turn of the century. Yes, it has some roots in African musical expression, but it's a distinctly American art form.
davidfugel 1 month ago
@ninjaspit I'd like to see Dave Brubeck's reaction if you were to tell him that he "stole" your music.
davidfugel 1 month ago
Was this really by Ferdinand Morton?
tthomaselli2 3 months ago
rap is good and so is jazz.
t3hplatyz0rz 3 months ago
It only took black music about ten years to degenerate into rap when you come right down to it. In 1967 they still made decent music, by 1977 the descent into braindead rap had begun and it's been all downhill from there.
ElComadreja777 3 months ago
@kg6iif you're an idiot... but i suppose you are in tilted to your opinion
cents2mp 3 months ago
50 cent says that he is the madefaking pimp,But Jelly Roll Morton
really was the pimp.Jelly Roll Morton is the father of jazz music.
Pentagonshark666 4 months ago 5
"That's a dirty little verse...Couldn't say that." <3
TheDeysiRae 4 months ago in playlist TheDeysiRae's Favorited Videos
We're learning about this guy in my Jazz class. We haven't gotten into Louie and Miles yet but this guys is definitely the most interesting we've gotten to yet. I just wish the teacher would focus on the artist and not the damn music notes so much.
maddywoo13 4 months ago
@maddywoo13 man you are so fucking lucky. Jazz class? all we learn about is boring music theory, ive got to find on my ow about these great musicians
fiftieslover 4 months ago 3
It's so beautiful, most of all the second-to-last chorus, the piano solo.
TheIsraDave 4 months ago
awesome
kookookachooo000 4 months ago
wish there was a 'love it' button
chunkmyfriend 5 months ago
Great baritone. Thanks for this post. Really nice.
gcpropertymanagement 7 months ago
Who is the singer? It's Morton?
fdurkee40 7 months ago
@fdurkee40 yeah its Jelly roll morton
JulianHuxtable 4 months ago
where can i find the sheet for this?
guitartappingpro 7 months ago
@guitartappingpro
Go here:
Sheldon Harris Sheet Music Collection
harris/MUM00682_203.pdf#view=Fit
63lambretta 5 months ago
@63lambretta what is this link?google it?
guitartappingpro 5 months ago
GodDAMN. When was this recorded? And is that him singing too?
OhShitOhHellOhWell 7 months ago
@OhShitOhHellOhWell 1938. He started singing in the late 20s on 'Doctor Jazz'.
cholocharile 7 months ago
pretty cool how this guy was an actual pimp at one point
THEalfalfa1 9 months ago
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ArianeMaldonado901 10 months ago
i wonder what would happen if i showed death metal to this man :3
Mdeil20 10 months ago
@Mdeil20
They'd see an old jazz musician? What a lazy, pointless thing to say.
annefrankisaho 9 months ago
@Mdeil20 well asshole all you would need is an '81 DeLorean & a flux capacitor, u unoriginal ,uncultured fuck.
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XxCollballxX 8 months ago
nah
JRussoBuffaloNY 8 months ago
love it!
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check out this amazing pianist who composes his own pieces, and he raps too !
search up "composition 1 (or 2) matt craig"
or search up "look at me now matt craig" for his more popular rap vid
this kids gonna be famous!
stupidboi12 10 months ago
I wish I discovered this supergangster(smack dat hoe) pimp earlier
SoundboyEric 10 months ago
happy st.patties day fellas, 20 years old miami born & raised, here now out by the port, first st.patties day alone. Nothing but me, my bourbon, a couple cold beers, & some good old tunes. Cheers to you all. CHEERS TO HESITATION BLUES,
BlackMarketMedia1 10 months ago
obviously the 6 people who disliked this have their own " haters' " blues.
aboveantigravity 10 months ago
Oh how long do I have to wait?
newmusicentrepreneur 11 months ago
This is a treasure. Thank God for recording equipment and also for people with the foresight to save this type of thing for future generations to enjoy.
mdr1013 11 months ago 6
6 people are dicks. I'm not even going to try to be witty.
TheBlueEyedHonky 11 months ago 24
@cazadordemolinos Perhaps the best DAMN comment about the Great Jelly Roll Morton I have ever seen!
SirGaul 11 months ago
Can those who are talking about something other than music go elsewhere as this comment box should be about the wonderful and influental music of the legendary Jelly Roll Morton. He is Jazz however Jazz, like rock, arose from Blues and trad music. Either way its a wonderful music style. :) And the comparison to Duke Ellington is a bit extreme. Sure he is big band but Jelly Roll came first. Like Chuck Berry to rock and roll. With him, We'd have no Beatles and many other acts. :) Take care! :)
baishengren 1 year ago
i love this shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
franyez 1 year ago
love the music but it isn't jazz this is ragtime
atrex1991 1 year ago
@atrex1991 It is 12-bar blues. I agree with liking it though. :)
GwenynAnn90 1 year ago
i hate youtube delet all
potifant 1 year ago 2
rap sucks
0Mike0Banks0 1 year ago
good!
dksoulmusic 1 year ago
My dad Frank Melrose, was mistaken for Morton on a recording in the early years....He was good friends with Jelly, I catch a resemblance now and then,,,This is such a treat to listen to!! They were both great pianists..
idamay1 1 year ago 3
@idamay1 Your dad knew Jelly? I truly envy him!
SirGaul 11 months ago
@SirGaul So much for that certain friend because it seems as though he ain't shit , Minister in the Ministry of Dumbass! YEEEE HAAWWW!
thejewishmessiah666 11 months ago
@SirGaul Ida May's father was Kansas City Frank Melrose, an absolutely amazing Jazz pianist,Jelly Roll Stomp is my alltime fav by him. I love 'em
JRussoBuffaloNY 8 months ago
it's a crime to be jelly roll thanks for posting his music
rodney1238 1 year ago 2
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classicscrap1 1 year ago
I'm looking for the score of this song*
anyone can help??
thanks
sikyoyoyo 1 year ago
dislikes really? I guess some old ragtime piano just doesn't do it for some...
nineveh420 1 year ago
Danny Barker played with Jelly Roll at some point. When Danny was a young fella he delivered coal to the sportin' houses in Storryville and I wondered if he saw Mr Morton playing in some polished parlor back then. If so it would have been a fine inspiration for a young musician... the image of a "professor" getting payed to make music in such entertaining circumstances. Checkout the movie Pretty Baby.... seems somewhat close to a Storyville depiction. Wish I had asked Danny about that.
SovereignBlade 1 year ago
Much obliged a7x! Its kind of fun tracking down the history on some of these songs - this one has a hundred year history!
DrGitpaws 1 year ago
@DrGitpaws no problem.
ya it is kind of neat. we had to listen to some songs like this for part of a school assignment so it was different to hear somehthing than what i usually listen to
a7xpunkrocklover 1 year ago
w w w. bluegrass messengers. com / hesitation-blues--version-13-jelly-roll-morton. aspx
no spaces obviosl but it wont let me post the link but thats where u can find the lyrics
a7xpunkrocklover 1 year ago
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a7xpunkrocklover 1 year ago
This song was written by Art Gillham, Billy Smythe, and Scott Middleton (1915). But my guess is that the lyrics here were Jelly Roll's. And some of these show up in later versions. Great ragtime, though. Anyone know where I can get the lyrics?
DrGitpaws 1 year ago
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a7xpunkrocklover 1 year ago
This song was written by Art Gillham, Billy Smythe, and Scott Middleton (1915). But my guess is that the lyrics here were Jelly Roll's. And some of these show up in later versions. Great ragtime, though.
DrGitpaws 1 year ago
i feel so blessed to be able to listen to this
it's great! thanks for uploading
jumpyourbone 1 year ago 2
Awesome
GeezerDookey 1 year ago
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nasty33343 1 year ago
If you don't mind me saying: Jelly Roll Morton is Tampa Red piano version, so to speak. :) Outstanting! Thanks a million for posting.
kojocel 1 year ago
The great Library of Congress recordings that Jelly Roll did for Alan Lomax back in 1938. Timeless, and beautiful.
steelydanbowler 1 year ago
Beautiful. He claims it as his and he was writing and playing blues earlier than most anyone. Claims Winin' Boy as his own too. Sweet Jelly Roll indeed.
gtrmon 1 year ago
Kick ass music, awesome!
Mojave888 1 year ago
me too... one the best blues songs i know (this version!)
Zuzelschorsch 1 year ago
@Zuzelschorsch you should look for rev g davis' version... it's certainly funnier
busessuck1 1 year ago
@cazadordemolinos He was, plus he was a great artist.
BuckshotLaFunke 1 year ago
@BuckshotLaFunke True!
cazadordemolinos 1 year ago
cooooool...
kevinherbert 1 year ago
Classic rendition of this great Art Gillham and Billy Smythe song!
KawhackitaRag 1 year ago
What a great song...timeless!
datalal624 1 year ago
this is ....to ...good.
joshington82 1 year ago
he is right there...
samcam42099 1 year ago
Jazz godfather and the creator of the pimp attitude He was the precursor of all what happened in american music
Euarglh 1 year ago
che bella voce che aveva jelly roll!!!!!
Mr98giuliano 1 year ago
It's all so simple and yet it's immortal music.
BuckshotLaFunke 1 year ago 3
@BuckshotLaFunke Sometimes simplicity is the best! = ]
bealtespip123 1 year ago 4
'touch my bonnet, touch my shawl, but do not touch my waterfall'
somehow think most men alive can relate to this lyric.. ;)
IndependentGeorge76 1 year ago
I'm amazed of how clear the recording is. No, doubt the master of piano jazz.
CadillacL 1 year ago
Can someone explain why the sound is so crisp and clean ?
Emopmember 1 year ago 3
@Emopmember probably due to a decent restoration
busessuck1 1 year ago 4
@Emopmember He did a lot recordings for the Lib of Congress prob this is from this--1940 about
mymusicdiscovery 1 year ago
real American music we are lucky
mykmmc 1 year ago 3
When I was a Kid A Blues man would show me how to play a tune, and when I'd play it, it wouldn't sound the same!
I Heard the EVERLY BROTHERS, say they remember the same experience, with the Blues Man next door!
So this to me sounds like a Blues Man, that NEVER HAD THE BLUES!
jor99912 1 year ago
@jor99912 Dude, a black man born in the 1880s in Louisiana and YOU some 130 years later say HE don't have the BLUES?!? Wake the f@#k up!
onein7twist 1 year ago 58
@onein7twist born in 1890
JRussoBuffaloNY 8 months ago
@onein7twist Funny, I thought he was just a human being.
TheGammonRoom 8 months ago
@onein7twist I think he was creole. Bi-racial.
cynderthedragoness99 3 months ago
Respond to this but he still had the blues...:)
cynderthedragoness99 3 months ago
@jor99912 Post your version of "Hesitation Blues" so we can see how easy it is for you to appropriate Jelly Roll Morton's style, which seems to be the basis on how you came to your ignorant concept of what is and isn't the blues. I can't wait to hear it!
Bluesnswing 1 year ago
@jor99912 Jelly Roll is usually regarded as a Jazz musician, not blues. Most jazz musicians sing Blues in jazz styles. Especially at the time. For blues in that period you should go for Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, not Jelly Roll Morton.
Breadkeyboards 1 year ago
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@Breadkeyboards I must have said something, I see my Moniker & responses to it!
So I don't know "WHAT I said! Know I don't like this! At 10 I loved Beethoven & Cab Calloway.
A Blues Man Plumber taught me some Blues. But when I played it, it was not quite like his!
This individual removed my comment!
Now how REPUBLICAN is "That???
If there's anything "UGLIER" than a Republican, it is a (BLACK REPUBLICAN).
Too "DUMB" to see the Light, so the censure!
I pray that this PUG" is WHITE!
jor99912 1 year ago
@jor99912 i'm confused. your comment seems like a random tangent that not even i could compete with.
jstb0b 7 months ago
@jor99912 ..what?
joshcaprai 10 months ago
national treasure!!
anyoltime 1 year ago
5 big stars
amnaki 1 year ago 2
This recording sounds really old, older than most Jazz recordings. Im new to jazz, so be mercyfull, but im guessing he was one of the first. Still, sounds so clear and proffesional even with such primitive equipment. Love it.
dmbassistdude 1 year ago
@dmbassistdude he definately was one of the first, and is generally considered to be the first great jazz composer. if you're new to jazz and like this kind of orchestrated stuff, check out Duke Ellington. IMO he's the best :P
mightyafrowhitey 1 year ago
Thanks man I will.
dmbassistdude 1 year ago
@mightyafrowhitey you call this piano and someone stumping on the ground "orchestrated stuff?"
I don't even know how you can associate Jelly Roll and Duke Ellington. Big band and dixieland jazz are two different genres, different generations, different size and different techniques; not even close! Ever heard of Jack Teagarden? Sidney Bechet? Cuz that would be comparable in period and style.
Jelly Roll probably stole most of the music and put his name on it. Good performer, though.
Breadkeyboards 1 year ago
@Breadkeyboards bit unbeable all this........
sturdle 11 months ago
"Jelly Roll was a blues player.. He played in stride shades, ragtime shades, in stomp, spanish tinge, a bit of boogie woogie thrown in sometimes, etc etc, it wasn't until later that some of these terms were defined and applied to Morton.. Simply put Jelly Roll just "was" all of the above and several more whenever he wanted to be.... When you're playing for your job and could be outplayed in a cutting contest at any moment, you learn to be versatile.
RelianceMusicRolls 1 year ago 2
ragtime player.
SoadLrg 2 years ago 2
jelly roll was always known as a ragtime piano player, not stride
dudemanbayliss 2 years ago
OMG or, as we say in the Land o' Cakes, CJHMB (Crivvens! Jings! Help ma boab!)
5 stars
ReadSunsetSong 2 years ago
@ReadSunsetSong Ha haaarr My favourite was the fat one who always had bags o sweeties, bullseyes and soor plooms I think, 'Help ma Boab'....dearie tut, mon.
pianomags 1 year ago
I love this song :]
linnerz69 2 years ago
salixfi
Oh, I love him. Talking 'bout legends!
salixfi 2 years ago
Finally reached 100,000 Views.
Morahman7vnNo2 2 years ago 3
great music
MrJazznissen 2 years ago
that's amazing - much bluesier than i thought i would ever hear from Jelly Roll
o1kric 2 years ago
bellisimo, que viva Jelly... muchas gracias
sirjuandabicho 2 years ago
que hueva de musica
jodete81 2 years ago
Veo q entre tus vids fav están McLaughlin y Santana, justamente el d Autlán comenzó en el Festival de Woodstock'69 como SANTANA BLUES BAND, tan revolucionario fueron las BLUE NOTES q sin ellas no existiría el JAZZ hoy o el rock ni ambos músicos, incluso x las OCTAVAS y la rítmica afrocubana y brasileña q Jelly Roll llamó The Latin Tinge, en 68 Mahavishnu grabó con Miles Davis esa fusión nueva al jazz q claro, parece no tener q ver nada con lo actual.
betokkikke 2 years ago
Obvio q suena viejo y estàs en tu derecho d mantener tu hueva inoculada, pero nada es nuevo o viejo en el arte, existen esas BLUE NOTES y poètica d Nueva Orléans condenadas como música del demonio x los blancos d EU hace justo un siglo, pero checa Modern Jazz Guitar Style d André Bush en google books, cap 4 sobre ritmo, también Wikipedia referente a Hesitation Blues, otro gallo t cantará x lo q t gusta con Mahavishnu o Santana es + viejo q tú, lee + arriba...
betokkikke 2 years ago
I could listen to this for hours, Love it :)
meleeECI 2 years ago 34
meleeECI, my feelings exactly. It's so relaxed, without presuming anything. Perhaps a musician needs to be at the end of a great career to produce such a gem.
BuckshotLaFunke 2 years ago
@meleeECI so could i my friend, so could i.
GScott1991 1 year ago
It looks like it was recorded yesterday, his voice is so clear...
Wilburo2691 2 years ago 3
well tell me I'm wrong but I think Jelly Roll and the red hot peppers made a big step out of ragtime, dixieland to the big band sound. These people invented what we're doin' now.
zwollef 2 years ago
maravilloso.
quefarsa 2 years ago 3
wow ese piano es una delicia completa
Mradsalua 2 years ago 6
hahaha I think we can all figure out what "waterfall" is supposed to mean!
KawhackitaRag 2 years ago
funny, I never heard Jelly Roll sing before! Thanks for this post!
I guess these are the Library of Congress recordings?
KawhackitaRag 2 years ago 2
is he really randy newmans da?
hoganband 2 years ago
That would be interesting. He died in l941, but was young. It is possible, I guess. I love both of them.
smurfette2234 2 years ago
Grazie perchè mi hai dato la possibilità di ascoltare e vedere le cose che amo.un abbraccio da Salerno
guido
GUIDOMARENA 2 years ago
Visited New Oorleans in 1959, when racism was alive and well. A book there said that the even then current meaning of "Creole," as "mixed race," was false, that "Creole" meant Caucasian. Uncertain what to believe. Please advise on double entendres: parasol, rat, cane, double twist, waterfall, stump.
There's a girl, sittin' on the stump.
I happen to know she's on the stump.
Did I hear that verse wrong or does stump have one meaning the first time and a different one the second time?
zo2imus 2 years ago
Hahahaha! Oh, my god.. this is so pretty. Oh, I just love this song!
BluRondoAlaTurk 2 years ago
I like Jorma's version of this...
dmmadde 2 years ago
Mr Morton had a delicate sense of poetry that many of his followers lack(ed).
BuckshotLaFunke 2 years ago
I just stumbled on this, I am thoroughly diggin' it!
PrettyNPinkPanther 2 years ago
greatest jazz pianist that ever lived...
not a bad compser too!
;-)
notbendable 2 years ago
Americans can only think in black and white, im from the carribean where its normal for generations of people to look just the way jelly does, actually he resembles my grandfather. So lets stop all this silly talk and just dig on jelly!
loren1283 2 years ago
Morton, Yancey, Garner, Monk - jazz piano's great originals.
BuckshotLaFunke 2 years ago
My jelly was mixed
He looks pretty european in this pic but he's black/white
Mighty dammed talented too =]
01frosts 2 years ago
Yeah, it was common back then for people of mixed ancestry to try to appear European, especially in Louisiana.
numberonesurvivor75 2 years ago
Play it for us again Mr Jellyroll!
deathheim1 2 years ago 2
S-p-l-e-n-d-i-d. Always great to go back to the roots.
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BrunoJazzmanLeicht 2 years ago 4
jelly is black or white??
in leggend of 1900 he is black...and here white...i don't understand that...can someone tell me????
alex20092888 2 years ago
He was quadroon, to use a HIGHLY outdated phrase. His mother was half black half white and I think his father was white.
KnitChick84 2 years ago
thanks! i didn't know that word. now i know!!! :-D
alex20092888 2 years ago
He was Creole, but maybe he had some black in him... I don't know. At that time in New Orleans a lot of different people lived there... well like nowadays :P
maszlagma 2 years ago
thanks! :)
alex20092888 2 years ago
Creole means a mix of Black and White...
Lafforte 2 years ago