The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings (7CD & Bonus Interviews Disc)

Disc 1

1. The Story of "I'm Alabama Bound"
2. Time in Mobile
3. King Porter Stomp
4. The Story of "King Porter Stomp"
5. Jelly Roll's Background
6. Music Lessons
7. Miserere
8. The Stomping Grounds
9. The Style of Sammy Davis
10. Tony Jackson was the Favorite / Dope, Crown, and Opium
11. Poor Alfred Wilson
12. Honky Tonk Blues / In New Orleans, Anyone Could Carry a Gun
13. New Orleans was a Free and Easy Place
14. The Story of Aaron Harris

Disc 2

1. The Story of Aaron Harris, continued / Aaron Harris Blues
2. Aaron Harris, His Hoodoo Woman, and the Hat That Started a Riot
3. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot and the Song of Robert Charles
4. The Story of the 1900 New Orleans Riot, continued
5. Game Kid Blues
6. New Orleans Funerals
7. Funeral Marches
8. Oh! Didn't He Ramble
9. Tiger Rag, third, fourth, and fifth strains
10. Tiger Rag / Panama
11. The Right Tempo is the Accurate Tempo
12. Jazz Discords and Story of the Kansas City Stomp
13. Kansas City Stomp, continued
14. Slow Swing and "Sweet Jazz Music"
15. Salty Dog / Bill Johnson, Jelly's Brother-in-Law
16. Hestitation Blues

Disc 3

1. My Gal Sal
2. The St. Louis Scene
3. Maple Leaf Rag, St. Louis style / Maple Leaf Rag, New Orleans style
4. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis
5. Jelly Roll Carves St. Louis, continued
6. New Orleans Blues
7. Winin' Boy Blues
8. Winin' Boy Blues, continued
9. The Anamule Dance
10. The Anamule Dance, continued
11. The Great Buddy Bolden / Buddy Bilden's Blues
12. The Great Buddy Bolden, continued
13. Mr. Jelly Lord
14. How Jelly Roll Got His Name
15. Original Jelly Roll Blues
16. Honky Tonk Blues

Disc 4

1. Real Tough Boys
2. Sporting Attire and Shooting the Agate
3. Sweet Mamas and Sweet Papas
4. See See Rider
5. Parading with the Broadway Swells
6. Fights and Weapons
7. Luis Russell and New Orleans Riffs
8. Jelly's Travels: From Yazoo to Clarksdale
9. Jelly's Travels: From Clarksdale to Helena
10. Jelly's Travels: From Helena to Memphis
11. In Memphis: The Monarch Saloon and Benny Frenchy
12. Benny Frenchy's Tune, continued
13. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor
14. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, continued
15. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, part 3
16. Make Me a Pallett on the Floor, concluded

Disc 5

1. The Dirty Dozen
2. The Murder Ballad, part 1
3. The Murder Ballad, part 2
4. The Murder Ballad, part 3
5. The Murder Ballad, part 4
6. The Murder Ballad, part 5
7. The Murder Ballad, part 6
8. The Murder Ballad, part 7
9. Fickle Fay Creep
10. Jungle Blues
11. King Porter Stomp
12. Sweet Peter
13. Hyena Stomp
14. Wolverine Blues, begun
15. Wolverine Blues, concluded
16. State And Madison
17. The Pearls, begun
18. The Pearls, concluded

Disc 6

1. Bert Williams
2. Freakish
3. Pep
4. The Georgia Skin Game
5. The Georgia Skin Game, continued
6. The Georgia Skin Game, conclusion
7. Ungai Hai
8. New Orleans Blues
9. The Spanish Tinge
10. Improving Spanish Tempos
11. Creepy Feeling, concluded
12. The Crave
13. Mamanita
14. C'était N'aut' Can-Can, Payez Donc
15. Spanish Swat
16. Ain't Misbehavin'
17. I Hate a Man Like You / Rolling Stuff
18. Michigan Water Blues

Disc 7

1. Winin' Boy Blues
2. Winin' Boy Blues, continued
3. Boogie Woogie Blues
4. Buddy Bertrand's Blues, continued / Mamie's Blues
5. When the Hot Stuff Came In
6. The First Hot Arrangements
7. The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café
8. At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles
9. Little Liza Jane, continued / On the West Coast
10. In the Publishing Business

• Remastered from the original acetate discs at the Library of Congress using Sony Direct Stream Digital technology and restored using the Cedar Cambridge system.
• Includes Alan Lomax's acclaimed biography, Mister Jelly Roll, plus a new 80-page book with an appreciation by John Szwed and many rare photographs.
• Expanded liner notes and new comprehensive transcription, with Alan Lomax's hand-written annotations, included as an Adobe PDF document.

Bonus Interviews Disc:

• Original Jelly Roll Blues
• Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District
• Hot Bands and Creole Tunes
• Eh, La Bas
• Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element
• Playing Hot with Buddy Bolden
• High Society
• Sporting Life Costumes
• Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician
• Creoles Playing with Negroes: Getting that Drive
• Jelly Roll's Compositions
• How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar
• Guitar Blues
• Bad Men and Pimps
• The Story of the Coon Blues
• Coon Blues
• Jazz is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades
• Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District
• The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" - Improvising and Reading Music
• Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best

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