New Orleans pianist, composer, raconteur and the self-proclaimed "inventor of jazz," is featured through original Library of Congress music and oral history sessions, and interviews with jazz scholar Dan Morgenstern. Pervasive influence of Morton's music includes the swing-era sounds of Benny Goodman to recent revivals by Dr. Michael White and Wynton Marsalis. Also Cajun fiddler Michael Doucet reflects on 25 years of his band BeauSoleil, and a visit in the field with youthful Cape Breton fiddler Natalie MacMaster.
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"Song" Artist
Album Title (Record Label)
"I Thought I heard Buddy Bolden Say" Jelly Roll Morton Jazzin' The Blues (Forlane)
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Salute To Jelly Roll Morton (Leisure)
Blues & Roots (Atlantic)
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Hot Jazz on Blue Note (Blue Note)
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Interview: Michael White and Dan Morgenstern on Jelly Roll
Morton -----
A Gottschalk Gala (Premier)
Piano Starts Here (Sony)
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The Folkways Years 1959-1973 (Smithsonian Folkways)
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Bonnie Raitt (WB)
The Cream of the Andrews Sisters (Pearl)
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Folk Masters 1996 DAT
Mardi Gras party (Rounder)
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Highly Seasoned Cajun Music (Rounder)
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Brothers & Sisters (Capricorn)
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Interview: Michael Doucet -----
J'Etais Au Bal (Swallow)
Crazy Rhythm (Bloodshot)
Oh The Grandeur (Ryko)
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Pickin' on the Rolling Stones (CMH)
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Where There's Smoke There's Fire (Island)
The Shelter Records Years (Right Stuff)
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Paint it Blue (HoB)
Dream Scene (Schanachie)
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Hi How Are You Today? (A&M)
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My Roots are Showing (Rounder)
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Interview: Natalie MacMaster -----
Short Trip Home (Sony)
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