THE COMPLETE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECORDINGS

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'''The Complete Library of Congress Recordings''' is a 2005 box set of recordings from jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton. The set spans 128 tracks over eight CDs. It won two Grammy Awards in 2006 — Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes.
The set is comprised mainly of recordings made by noted musicologist and Morton biographer Alan Lomax, who conducted a series of interviews with Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938. The interviews consisted of Morton's stories about the early days of jazz, as well as a number of piano performances.

Contents

Track listing

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Disc 5

Disc 6

Disc 7

Disc 8

Credits

External link

Track listing

Disc 1

#"I'm Alabama Bound" – 4:03
#"Time in Mobile" – 4:13
#"King Porter Stomp" – 4:06
#"The Story of 'King Porter Stomp'" – 3:53
#"Jelly Roll's Background" – 4:22
#"Music Lessons" – 4:05
#"Miserere" – 4:05
#"The Stomping Grounds" – 4:15
#"The Style of Sammy Davis" – 4:17
#"Tony Jackson Was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium" – 4:00
#"Poor Alfred Wilson" – 4:02
#"Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun" – 4:20
#"New Orleans was a Free and Easy Place" – 4:06
#"The Story of Aaron Harris" – 4:06

Disc 2

#"The Story of Aaron Harris, continued / Aaron Harris Blues" – 4:05
#"Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot" – 4:10
#"The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles" – 4:04
#"The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot, continued" – 4:04
#"Game Kid Blues" – 3:57
#"New Orleans Funerals" – 4:17
#"Funeral Marches" – 4:11
#"Oh! Didn't He Ramble" – 4:07
#"Tiger Rag, third, fourth, and fifth strains" – 4:02
#"Tiger Rag / Panama" – 4:02
#"The Right Tempo is the Accurate Tempo" – 4:39
#"Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp" – 4:31
#"Kansas City Stomp, continued" – 4:34
#"Slow Swing and 'Sweet Jazz Music'" – 4:32
#"Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law" – 4:22
#"Hesitation Blues" – 4:30

Disc 3

#"My Gal Sal" – 3:51
#"The St. Louis Scene" – 4:09
#"Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans style" – 4:19
#"Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis" – 4:19
#"Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis, continued" – 4:23
#"New Orleans Blues" – 3:58
#"Winin' Boy Blues" – 3:45
#"Winin' Boy Blues, continued" – 4:24
#"The Anamule Dance" – 3:46
#"The Anamule Dance, continued" – 4:19
#"The Great Buddy Bolden / Buddy Bilden's Blues" – 4:11
#"The Great Buddy Bolden, continued" – 4:11
#"Mr. Jelly Lord" – 4:09
#"How Jelly Roll Got His Name" – 4:14
#"Original Jelly Roll Blues" – 4:09
#"Honky Tonk Blues" – 4:07

Disc 4

#"Real Tough Boys" – 4:31
#"Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate" – 4:33
#"Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas" – 4:20
#"See See Rider" – 4:24
#"Parading with the Broadway Swells" – 4:22
#"Fights and Weapons" – 4:27
#"Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs" – 4:25
#"Jelly's Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale" – 4:14
#"Jelly's Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena" – 4:34
#"Jelly's Travels: From Helena to Memphis" – 4:23
#"In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy" – 4:24
#"Benny Frenchy's Tune, continued" – 4:23
#"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" – 4:15
#"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, continued" – 4:14
#"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, part 3" – 4:14
#"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, concluded" – 4:35

Disc 5

#"The Dirty Dozen" – 4:30
#"The Murder Ballad, part 1" – 4:05
#"The Murder Ballad, part 2" – 4:17
#"The Murder Ballad, part 3" – 4:29
#"The Murder Ballad, part 4" – 4:19
#"The Murder Ballad, part 5" – 4:15
#"The Murder Ballad, part 6" – 4:29
#"The Murder Ballad, part 7" – 4:32
#"Fickle Fay Creep" – 3:17
#"Jungle Blues" – 3:43
#"King Porter Stomp" – 2:55
#"Sweet Peter" – 3:04
#"Hyena Stomp" – 3:32
#"Wolverine Blues, begun" – 3:45
#"Wolverine Blues, concluded" – 4:04
#"State And Madison" – 3:48
#"The Pearls, begun" – 3:28
#"The Pearls, concluded" – 3:35

Disc 6

#"Bert Williams" – 3:41
#"Freakish" – 3:59
#"Pep" – 3:32
#"The Georgia Skin Game" – 3:54
#"The Georgia Skin Game, continued" – 3:03
#"The Georgia Skin Game, conclusion" – 3:19
#"Ungai Hai" – 4:09
#"New Orleans Blues" – 4:07
#"The Spanish Tinge" – 4:13
#"Improving Spanish Tempos" – 4:06
#"Creepy Feeling, concluded" – 4:28
#"The Crave" – 4:37
#"Mamanita" – 4:12
#"C'était N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc" – 4:21
#"Spanish Swat" – 4:21
#"Ain't Misbehavin'" – 4:11
#"I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff" – 4:11
#"Michigan Water Blues" – 3:51

Disc 7

#"Winin' Boy Blues" – 3:45
#"Winin' Boy Blues, continued" – 4:24
#"Boogie Woogie Blues" – 4:21
#"Buddy Bertrand's Blues, continued / Mamie's Blues" – 4:25
#"When the Hot Stuff Came In" – 8:40
#"The First Hot Arrangements" – 9:00
#"The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café" – 7:57
#"At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles" – 9:54
#"Little Liza Jane, continued / On the West Coast" – 9:45
#"In the Publishing Business" – 8:50

Disc 8

#"Original Jelly Roll Blues" – 1:51
#"Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District" – 1:22
#"Hot Bands and Creole Tunes" – 4:29
#"Eh, La Bas" – 2:02
#"Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element" – 3:32
#"Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden" – 3:17
#"High Society" – 2:15
#"Sporting Life Costumes" – 1:38
#"Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician" – 2:23
#"Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting that Drive" – 4:28
#"Jelly Roll's Compositions" – 3:22
#"How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar" – 2:20
#"Guitar Blues" – 2:17
#"Bad Men and Pimps" – 3:38
#"The Story of the Coon Blues" – 1:33
#"Coon Blues" – 2:22
#"Jazz is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades" – 5:25
#"Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District" – 3:40
#"The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" - Improvising and Reading Music" – 3:23
#"Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best" – 6:17

Credits

★ Jelly Roll Morton – piano, vocals, guitar, commentary

★ Alan Lomax – interviewer

★ Johnny St. Cyr – guitar, commentary

★ Leonard Bechet – commentary

★ Paul Dominguez, Jr. – guitar, commentary

★ Albert Glenny – commentary

★ Alphonse Picou – commentary

External link

★ Library of Congress release on Grammy awards