The Piano Rolls

by Jelly Roll Morton

The Piano Rolls cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 January 1997
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 43:22
  • Community rating: 4/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Artis Wodehouse converted twelve of Morton's piano rolls from the mid 1920s into digital data, editing note by note against his phonograph recordings, and played them back on a nine foot Yamaha Disklavier grand. The sessions, produced and engineered by Max Wilcox at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York, include 'King Porter Stomp' and 'Grandpa's Spells'.

Genres

Descriptors: piano, virtuosic, retro, classic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Midnight Mama (3:16)
  2. Shreveport Stomp (4:02)
  3. Stratford Hunch (4:14)
  4. Dead Man Blues (4:49)
  5. Grandpa's Spells (3:12)
  6. Tin Roof Blues (3:28)
  7. London Blues (3:17)
  8. King Porter Stomp (2:38)
  9. Sweet Man (3:26)
  10. Original Jelly Roll Blues (3:42)
  11. Mr. Jelly-Lord (4:16)
  12. Tom Cat Blues (2:57)

Credits

  • Jelly Roll Morton - primary artist, written-by
  • Joseph Patrych - consultant [computer consultant]
  • Ken Bookstein - consultant [digital audio consultant], editor [midi editor]
  • Michael Montgomery - consultant [historical consultant]
  • David Thomas Roberts - consultant [performance consultant]
  • Richard Brandle - transferred by [conversion of piano rolls to midi data]
  • Richard Tonnesen - transferred by [conversion of piano rolls to midi data]
  • Rob DeLand - transferred by [conversion of piano rolls to midi data]
  • Brad Beattie - mastered by [audio analysis], edited by [midi editing]
  • Nicole LePera - mastered by [audio analysis], edited by [midi editing]
  • Max Wilcox - producer, engineer
  • New Orleans - design
  • Paul Zinman - engineer
  • Robert Hurwitz - executive-producer
  • Stanley Crouch - liner notes
  • Charles Nichols - mastered by [additional audio analysis]
  • Frank Driggs Collection - photography by
  • Gerhard Feldmann - technician [yamaha disklavier cf3s concert grand piano technician]
  • Anita Gonzales - written-by
  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings - written-by
  • Walter Melrose - written-by
  • Maceo Pinkard - written-by
  • Roy Turk - written-by

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