Jelly Roll Morton - Dead Man Blues 1926 (Classic Jazz Piano Synthesia) [Halloween piano 🎃]

Dead Man Blues by Jelly Roll Morton
This version comes from piano roll QRS piano roll 3674.
Original Recording: • JELLY ROLL MORTON PIAN...
Wikipedia:
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egotist:
In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting. If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because "All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class." So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points". --Quoted in John Szwed, Dr Jazz.
This video quote:
"The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans." - Jelly Roll Morton
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[@freezafrezado9472]

Where is DR ALEXX with his 👍🏼?

[@itsRemco]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Iggey-Bertona]

Love such stylish pieces

[@simontaylor7990]

@itsRemco - Fabulous. How can I learn/play this using Synthesia? (I'm new to this!)

[@itsRemco]

I'm going to make a best practices video on how to use synthesia.
For now:
1. Slow down the video to really get a grasp of what's bring pressed.
2. Practically 4 bars of left hand, 4 bars of right hand, combine and continue this approach.
3. Memorized the whole melody.
4. Try to to play it slow and fast

[@simontaylor7990]

@@itsRemcoThanks for that. Really helpful.

[@colorred5383]

Spookie Woogie by George Shearing or
Spooky Boogie by Earl Hines would be fitting titles for thus but i don't know if you can find sheets for those ..

[@colorred5383]

Spookie Woogie is really a unique boogie too and would make a cool video tbh 😳

[@itsRemco]

@@colorred5383 Thanks for the recommendation!

[@philrademacher]

Nice Song, very fitting to Halloween! But if im honest i sometimes have some Kind of latin vibes listening to this piece, dont know really why😅

[@itsRemco]

Now that's interesting 😂

[@philrademacher]

@@itsRemco 😂 Yea, it is!

[@philrademacher]

@@itsRemco But just feel the Rhythm for instance at 0:18, until 0:25 thats really Salsa like

[@Thevintagemachinist]

Because he played with that style and invented jazz.

[@RagtimeIrvin]

Jelly used Latin rhythms in his music. He referred to it as the “Spanish Tinge” he has other “Spanish” works like “The Crave” “Creepy Feeling” “Mamanita” “Spanish Swat”
Scott Joplin even has a piece called “Solace” that uses Latin rhythms.

[@FantaSparta]

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