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  • PatrickOD
    • Nov 2024

    20.2.11 Alyn Shipton on ...

    What a pleasant surprise!


    Sunday 20 February, Alyn Shipton explores the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton.
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  • french frank
    Administrator/Moderator
    • Feb 2007
    • 30252

    #2
    I've altered the thread title as the link didn't link properly ...

    (I've only given away half the surprise )
    It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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    • aka Calum Da Jazbo
      Late member
      • Nov 2010
      • 9173

      #3
      Alyn Shipton explores the legacy of the so-called 'founder of jazz', Jelly Roll Morton.
      According to the best estimates of astronomers there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in the observable universe.

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      • PatrickOD

        #4
        Thanks guys.* I sure made a mess of that. But anyway, I thought I heard Dick Hyman say.....
        This clip is from Dick Hyman's CENTURY OF JAZZ PIANO CD-ROM encyclopedy. Recorded in 1999.


        * Only joshing, ff.

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        • PatrickOD

          #5
          Perhaps Discovering Music was not the right place for this. I can see why playing a selection of JRM's piano and band records would not have fitted the bill here, and it was good to hear contemporory musicians do the honours. But I longed for just one example of the hot stuff - maybe playing out with this version of Steamboat Stomp.

          Steamboat Stomp -- Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers 1926One of the most famous bands of the twenties and early thirties play Steamboat Stomp. These Morton...

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          • 3rd Viennese School

            #6
            I normally listen to this show every week. But I didn't this week.

            It was Jazz.




            3VS

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