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Jelly Roll Morton - The Pearls

Primary Artist
Jelly Roll Morton
Album Title
The Pearls
Release Date
September, 1926 
Time
65:28 
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Review by Cub Koda
This astounding 23-track compilation deserves a place in everybody's jazz collection -- it's that important, that listenable, and that essential. It takes the cream of Morton's sessions from his legendary 1926 Red Hot Peppers to his 1939 dates leading a small New Orleans band, with all the essential stops along the way, including a 1927 trio with the Dodds brothers in Chicago. This is hot jazz nearing the apex of sophistication, just before Duke Ellington took it even more uptown. ~  Read More
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