Jelly Roll Morton's Hot Seven 78 rpm COMMODORE 631 Sweet Substitute 1940 jazz NM
$
25
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CONDITION: NEAR MINT issue on this rarity issue on COMMODORE 631 with JELLY ROLL MORTON'S HOT SEVEN who were Henry Allen trumpet, Albert Nicholas clarinet, Joe Britton trombone, Eddie Williams Sax, Wellman Broud bass, Zuttly Singleton on drums and Jelly Roll piano and vocals with his own composition "SWEET SUBSTITUTE" and on the opposite side with "PANAMA" a 10" 78 rpm original record -- please see photos for overall condition--
Sweet Substitute was a bittersweet composition for Morton who wrote it out of frustration that he had sold the rights to much of his music with his "King Porter's Stomp" being played by Glen Miller's Orchestra and he had no royalties -- this song remained in obscurity for a long time -- and there is an interesting story behind from jazzist Billy Tayloer which I quote here: Jelly came on. He looked shockingly sick and feeble – old and a little mad. But he wore his old, southern-gentleman’s suit with dignity, and when he smiled the diamond in his tooth still glittered hard. He played a new piece of his called Sweet Substitute, and then he looked straight over at our booth. His eyes had a very personal kind of pride which I had never seen before…Then Jelly spoke only to us: “You punks can’t play this.”I forget the tune. What I do remember is a big, full, two-handed piano player – a ragtimer modified and relaxed by way of New Orleans, and very swinging… and as I listened, suddenly I knew. “Golly, he’s right. I can’t play what he’s playing. Just purely technically I can’t play two hands together and separately the way he does.” I looked over at the other confident young men who had come with me: I saw that they knew they couldn’t either. Ours was a very quiet booth for the next three hours.
This record will be securely packed in a new 12x12x4 box sandwiched between cardboard stiffeners and floating in a paper fill.
Combined shipping offered.
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