The Chant

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Release Date: 2010-08-09

Label: Monk

The father of jazz piano, Jelly Roll Morton got his start playing piano in the bordellos of New Orleans in the nineteen-teens, but soon began traveling around the South. He spent five years on the West Coast where he became very popular, but soon moved to Chicago to take advantage of its burgeoning jazz scene. After gaining his first hit in 1923 with “Wolverine Blues”, he soon recorded several classic sides for Victor with a New Orleans-style band made up of some of the top sidemen of his day, called the Red Hot Peppers. These recordings, made in Chicago in 1926-27 are from that classic period and are some of the finest examples of the “Hot” style.

A1, A2, A3 recorded in Chicago, September 15, 1926
A4, A5, A6 recorded in Chicago, September 12, 1926
A7, A8, B1, B2, B3 recorded in Chicago, December 16, 1926
B4, B5, B6, B7 recorded in Chicago, June 4, 1927