Early 1900s New Orleans Jazz

[icecream-guy]

One of my buddies turned me on on Jelly Roll Morton, early jazz piano player and singer. The link below leads into ~100 of the Library of Congress recordings done in 1938. Jelly roll is awesome on jazz piano, great story teller, and shed a bit of what life was like in the early 1900's in New Orleans and Memphis, if you are a history buff.

Here is a lead off into the recording and stories in the LOC gleaned from youtube. 

for more search 'Jelly Roll Morton Library of congress" on YouTube and check out the first link.

[deanwebb]

He's a legend, and his style influenced a lot of players that gave us rock and roll, like Pete Johnson and Huey "Piano" Smith.