The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
Tag: Jelly Roll Morton
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Pianist Dave Burrell deftly straddles jazz history
The Philadelphia-based veteran, who’s just as fluent in the music of Jelly Roll Morton as he is playing Eurocentric free improvisation, performs Friday night with Harrison Bankhead.
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Blues pianist Little Brother Montgomery influenced legends as diverse as Skip James and Johnny Cash
Pianist Little Brother Montgomery straddled blues, boogie-woogie, and jazz—and bridged prewar southern blues and the electric Chicago style.
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Three Stripes of Americana
Anthony Coleman reframes the post-ragtime proto-jazz of Jelly Roll Morton, one-of-a-kind mongrel folkie Michael Hurley cuts an album with Ida, and Tompkins Square collects three discs of off-the-grid black gospel.