Jelly Roll Blues

"Jelly Roll Blues" (FOX-TROT)
Sheet music cover.
Music by	Ferd "Jelly Roll" Morton
Published	1915
Form	Sheet music
Recorded by	Gennett, Bluebird, Victor
Performed by	Jelly Roll Morton and his The Red Hot Peppers

"Original Jelly Roll Blues," usually shortened to and known as "Jelly Roll Blues," is an early jazz fox-trot composed by Jelly Roll Morton. He recorded it first as a piano solo in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago two years later, titled as it was originally copyrighted: "Original Jelly-Roll Blues." It is referenced by name in the 1917 Shelton Brooks composition "Darktown Strutters' Ball".

References

• http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page10a.html.
• http://www.redhotjazz.com/redhot.html.