Jo Ann Castle plays Jelly Roll Morton! @omar

Uploaded February 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

Here's a rare clip of Jo Ann Castle playing Jelly Roll Morton's hit 1924 ragtime composition "King Porter Stomp" in 1968. Named after on of Morton's friends Porter King, Morton first composed the tune in 1905, and recorded it in 1923 as a piano solo, putting a copyright on it a year later. Enjoy!

You can download and print the sheets for "King Porter Stomp" for free here from Musescore: musescore.com/james_brigham/king-porter-stomp-melrose

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