Accompanying book includes: the essay "Doctor Jazz" by John Szwed (p. 2-41, with bibliography & discography on p. 79), details about the recording sessions & transfers, the current restoration & the new transcriptions of the spoken texts (p. 43-45), Morton's own 1938 writings about his life, taken chiefly from his unfinshed autobiography (p.47-71), & track details & other details (p. 72-77) laid in container.

Compact discs.

The Morton recordings were made by Lomax on fifty-four 78 rpm discs in May, June & Dec. 1938 in the Coolidge Auditorium, the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C; the contents of cd. 8 were taped by Lomax in 1948. The original discs of Morton have Archive of American Folk Song nos. 1638-1688 & 2487-2489. They were partially & selectively issued in 1947 on forty-five Circle 78 rpm discs, & in the 1950s on 12 Riverside 33 1/3 rpm discs. A partial issue on 4 compact discs was made in a previous Rounder Records box. This is the first unabridged issue of all the recordings (further details in book, p. 43-45).

The Alan Lomax collection

[cd. 1]. The story of I'm Alabama bound ; I'm Alabama bound pt. 1 ; Time in Mobile ; I'm Alabama bound pt. 2 ; King Porter stomp ; The story of King Porter stomp ; You can have it, I don't want it ; Copyrights and battles of music ; Jelly Roll's background ; Music lessons ; Miserere [from Il Trovatore] ; The French Opera House & the Tenderloin ; The stomping grounds ; The style of Sammy Davis ; The renown of Tony Jackson ; Pretty baby ; Tony Jackson was the favorite ; Dope, crown, and opium ; Poor Alfred Wilson ; Tony Jackson's "Naked Dance" ; Honky tonk blues ; In New Orleans, anyone could carry a gun ; New Orleans was a free and easy place ; Levee man blues ; The story of Aaron Harris, pt. 1.

[cd. 2]. The story of Aaron Harris, pt. 2 ; Aaron Harris blues ; Aaron Harris, his hoodoo woman, and the hat that started a riot ; The story of the 1900 New Orleans riot, pt. 1 & the song of Robert Charles ; The 1900 New Orleans riot, pt. 2 and Game Kid blues, pt. 1-2 ; Buddy Carter rag ; New Orleans funerals ; Steal away ; Nearer my God to Thee ; Funeral marches ; Flee as the bird to the mountains ; Oh! didn't he ramble ; Evolution of Tiger Rag ; Tiger Rag, 1st -5th strains ; Tiger Rag transformed ; Panama ; The right tempo is the accurate tempo ; Harmony, melody and riffs ; Jazz discords and story of the Kansas City Stomp ; Kansas City Stomp pt. 1 & pt. 2 ; Breaks in jazz ; Darktown Strutter's Ball ; Slow swing and sweet jazz music ; Salty dog ; Bill Johnson, Jelly's brother-in-law ; Hesitation blues.

[cd. 3]. My gal Sal, original and transformation ; the St. Louis scene ; Randall's tune ; Maple leaf rag, St. Louis style pt. 1 ; Maple leaf rag, St. Louis style pt. 2 ; Maple leaf rag, New Orleans style ; Jelly Roll carves St. Louis, pt. 1-2 ; Miserere, swinging arrangement, with a portion of the Anvil chorus [Il Trovatore] ; New Orleans blues ; Winin' boy blues, pt. 1-2 ; The Anamule Dance, pt. 1-2 ; The story of The Anamule Dance ; The origins of scat, scat song ; The great Buddy Bolden, pt. 1 ; Buddy Bolden's blues ; The great Buddy Bolden, pt. 2 ; Mr. Jelly Lord ; How Jelly Roll got his name ; Original Jelly Roll blues pt. 1 & 2 ; Jelly Roll's four-beat foot ; Honky Tonk blues ; Old-time honky tonks.

[cd. 4]. Real tough boys ; Sporting attire and shooting the agate ; Sweet mamas and sweet papas ; See See Rider pt. 1 & 2 ; Parading with the Broadway swells pt. 1 & 2 ; Fights and weapons ; Stars and Stripes Forever ; Luis Russell and New Orleans riffs ; Call of the freaks ; Jelly's travels from Yazoo to Clarksdale ; Jelly's travels from Clarksdale to Helena ; Jelly's travels from Helena to Memphis ; In Memphis : the Monarch Saloon & Benny Frenchy ; Benny Frenchy's tune pt. 1 & 2 ; Bad Sam, Memphis' toughest ; The stomp that beat Benny Frenchy ; All that I ask is love ; Make me a pallet on the floor, pt. 1-4.

[cd. 5]. The dirty dozen ; The murder ballad, pt. 1-7 ; Fickle fay creep ; Jungle blues ; King Porter stomp ; Sweet Peter ; Hyena stomp ; Wolverine blues, pt. 1-2 ; State and Madison ; The pearls, pt. 1-2.

[cd. 6]. Bert Williams ; Freakish ; Pep ; The Georgia skin game, pt. 1-3 ; I'm gonna get one and go directly ; Ungai Hai, the sign of the Indians ; New Orleans blues ; The Spanish tinge pt. 1 & 2 ; Improving Spanish tempos ; Creepy feeling pt. 1 & 2 ; The crave ; Mamanita ; C'était n'aut' can-can, payez donc ; If you don't shake, you don't get no cake ; Spanish swat ; Ain't misbehavin' ; I hate a man like you ; Rolling stuff ; Michigan water blues.

[cd. 7]. Winin' boy blues, pt. 1 & 2 ; Boogie woogie blues ; Albert Carroll's tune ; Buddy Bertrand's blues pt. 1 & 2 ; Mamie's blues ; When the hot stuff came in ; The first hot arrangements ; The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café ; At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles ; Little Liza Jane ; On the west coast : getting along swell ; In the publishing business ; Tricks ain't walkin' no more.

[cd. 8] : Selections from the 1949 New Orleans jazz interviews, [conducted &] recorded by Lomax. Original Jelly Roll blues / Johnny St. Cyr ; Jelly Roll's early playing days in the district / St. Cyr ; Hot bands & Creole tunes / St. Cyr ; Eh, la bas / St. Cyr ; Riffs and breaks from Creole tunes / St. Cyr ; Old-time Creole musicians and the French element / Leonard Bechet ; Playing hot with Buddy Bolden / Paul Dominguez Jr., Alphonse Picou ; High society / Picou, Dominguez Jr. ; Sporting life costumes / Albert Glenny, L. Bechet ; Buddy Bolden : man and musician / Glenny & L. Bechet ; Creoles playing with Negroes : getting that drive / L. Bechet ; Jelly Roll's compositions / St. Cyr ; How Johnny St. Cyr learned to play guitar / St. Cyr ; Guitar blues / St. Cyr ; Just the Guitar blues / St. Cyr ; Bad men and pimps / St. Cyr ; The story of the Coon Blues / Picou ; Coon Blues / Picou, Dominguez Jr. ; Jazz is just a make-up : Buddy Bolden, honky tonks, brass band funerals, and parades / Glenny, L. Bechet ; Young Sidney Bechet : Jim Crow and the dangers of the district / L. Bechet ; The main idea in jazz : "Just watch me" improvising and reading music / Glenny, L. Bechet ; Of all his Mother's children he loved Jelly the best : A little tale of Jelly Roll Morton / St. Cyr.

11661-1898-2 (CD 11661-1889-2--CD 11661-1896-2) Rounder Records

11661-1888-2 BK01 Rounder Records (book)

1638-1688 Archive of American Folk Song

2487-2489 Archive of American Folk Song

Morton, Jelly Roll, 1890-1941 > Interviews.

Jazz musicians > Interviews.

Jazz musicians > United States > Biography.

Jazz > Louisiana > New Orleans.