Sidewalk Blues - Jelly Role Morton
- Created by: Chris Ridout
- Created on: 21-09-16 12:21
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- Sidewalk Blues - Jelly Roll Morton (1926)
- Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph LaMotte)
- Pianist, composer and bandleader
- First jazz arranger
- Genres
- Ragtime
- Dixieland
- Swing
- Blues
- Jazz
- "Creole of Colour" - French / Spanish / African heritage
- Began in brothels
- First recorded music to come out of New Orleans
- Notable Compositions
- Sidewalk Blues
- King Porter Stomp
- Jelly Morton Blues
- Instruments
- Front Three
- Trombone
- Clarinet
- Trumpet
- Rhythm Section
- Piano
- Tuba/String Bass
- Banjo
- Drum KIt
- Instrument Techniques
- Wide vibrato
- Glissando
- Clarinet in high tessitura (register)
- Trills
- Front Three
- Chord Progression
- I I I I7
- IV IV I VI
- II V I I
- Musical Characteristic
- Rhythm
- Syncopation
- Longer and sustained in second half
- Rhythm
- Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph LaMotte)
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