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3 unusual facts about Red Hot Peppers


Jelly Roll Blues

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".

Red Hot Peppers

"Original Jelly-Roll Blues" (Jelly Roll Morton) 12-16-1926 Chicago, Illinois Bluebird

Walter Melrose

In 1926 he arranged a series of recordings for Victor Records by Morton's Red Hot Peppers, which have come to be regarded as landmarks of early jazz.



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