Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago

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Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers play "Dead Man Blues". Does 1920s jazz get any better than this?

I previously uploaded take 1 of this recording. This is take 2.

JELLY ROLL MORTON'S RED HOT PEPPERS
Jelly Roll Morton, piano, speech, arranger, directing: George Mitchell - cornet / Kid Ory - trombone / Omer Simeon, Barney Bigard, Darnell Howard - clarinets / Johnny St. Cyr - banjo, guitar, speech / John Lindsay - string bass / Andrew Hilaire - drums

Recorded in the ballroom of the Webster Hotel, Chicago, September 21st, 1926

36284-2…….Dead Man Blues…….Victor 20252