JELLY-ROLL MORTON
Homebase: New Orleans, LA
Stats: 10/20/90 -- 7/10/41
Misc Notes: Professional stage name for Ferdinand Joseph LeMothe who arrived in Seattle (along with fellow jazz pianist Oscar Holden) from Vancouver B.C. around 1919. He played boogie-woogie piano in various seedy Seattle bars and another at Ponder's Corner near Tacoma. Later, in 1929, Morton recorded his composition, "Seattle Hunch" for Victor Records.
MISC NOTES: Recorded July 8, 1929. "Not licensed for Radio Broadcast."
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RECORDING PERSONNEL: Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (piano).
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
DISC NOTES:
A-SIDE MATRIX: 27565-A
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A-SIDE COMPOSER: F. Morton
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B-SIDE MATRIX: 27565-B
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B-SIDE COMPOSER: F. Morton
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MISC NOTES: Recorded on July, 8, 1929, "Seattle Hunch" was allegedly inspired by Morton's feeling that, after getting himself in a bit of gambling debt in town, he better get out while he could. "Freakish" was his description of men who, in Morton's own words bore the "femininity stamp" as based on his experiences in a nightlife scene populated by pimps, pool sharks, hookers and gays.
LOCATION: New Jersey
RECORDING PERSONNEL: Morton (piano)
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FORMAT: disc
SIZE: 10"
SPEED: 78 rpm
DISC NOTES: Original issue had "scroll" label design. Later reissued in Victor's "Swing Series." and another RCA Victor release (# p-75-7 27565).
A-SIDE MATRIX: V-38527-A
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A-SIDE COMPOSER: J. Morton
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B-SIDE MATRIX: V-38527-B
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B-SIDE COMPOSER: J. Morton
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