Archive Record
Images
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1987.3.0175 |
Title |
[Reel-to-reel tape recorded by Louis Armstrong] |
Object Type |
Tape |
Collection |
Louis Armstrong Collection |
Description |
Scope: Recording of "The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord." Back cover of tape box includes a photo of Louis onstage with Velma Middleton, Trummy Young and Billy Kyle, as well as a photo of the singer Johnny Ray. Contents (as on compact disc reference copy): Disc 1, Tracks 1-8: Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 3: The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord": "Maple Leaf Rag" (St. Louis style); Track 2: "Maple Leaf Rag" (New Orleans style); Track 3: "King Porter Stomp"; Track 4: "You Can Have It"; Tracks 5-11: Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 4: The Spanish Tinge": "Mama 'Nita"; Track 6: "Spanish Swat"; Track 7: "New Orleans Blues"; Track 8: Morton talks about "New Orleans Blues"; Track 9: Morton talks about Frank Richards; Track 10: "La Paloma"; Track 11: Morton talks about opera; Tracks 12-16: Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 2: Way Down Yonder": "The Animule Ball"; Track 13: "Shooting the Agate"; Morton says Louis Armstrong doesn't deserve credit for inventing scat; Track 14: "See See Rider"; Tracks 15-16: "New Orleans Funeral" (incomplete; continued on Disc 2, Track 7) Disc 2, Tracks 1-6: Recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 1: Jazz Started in New Orleans": "Tiger Rag"; Track 2: "Tiger Rag and Panama"; Track 3: "Mr. Jelly Lord"; Track 4: "Original Jelly Roll Blues"; Track 5: "Ancestry and Boyhood"/"Boy at the Piano"; Track 6: "The Miserie and Boyhood Memories" (incomplete). Tracks 7-8: Continuation of the recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 2: Way Down Yonder": "New Orleans Funeral"; "Didn't He Ramble"; Track 8: "Didn't He Ramble"; "New Orleans Funeral." Tracks 9-14: Continuation of recordings of Jelly Roll Morton Library of Congress sound recording "Volume 3: The Saga of Mr. Jelly Lord": "Discourse on Jazz Part 1"; Track 10: "Discourse on Jazz Part 2/Kansas City Stomps"; Track 11: "Discourse on Jazz Part 3/Kansas City Stomps Concluded"; Track 12: "Discourse on Jazz Part 4"; Track 13: "Randall's Rag"; "Maple Leaf Rag" introduction" (heard in full at start of disc 1). |
People |
Kyle, Billy Middleton, Velma Morton, Jelly Roll Ray, Johnny Young, Trummy |
Search Terms |
Louis Armstrong and His All Stars |
Year Range from |
1950 |
Year Range to |
1960 |
Creator |
Louis Armstrong |
Caption |
1987.3.175 Front |
Accession number |
1987.3 |