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| 1. | Tiger Rag
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| 2. | Jelly Roll Blues
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| 3. | The Fingerbreaker
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| 4. | The Pearls
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| 5. | King Porter Stomp
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| 6. | Buddy Bolden's Blues
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| 7. | The Crave
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| 8. | Grandpa's Spells
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| 9. | Perfect Rag
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| 10. | Wolverine Blues
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| 11. | Winin' Boy Blues
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| 12. | Frog-I-More Rag
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| 13. | Mister Joe
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| 14. | Shreveport Stomp
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| 15. | Mr. Jelly Lord
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Jazz / Ragtime, Stride
Jim Turner - piano
Topsy Chapman - vocal on Track 15
"A rare and brilliant bJelly Roll Morton/b solo piano retrospective by Jim Turner, well known pianist from the Jim Cullum Jazz Band who regularly appears on the Riverwalk Jazz radio program on NPR.
* One of the only recordings of Jelly Roll Morton's solo piano music currently available.
* The music of Jelly Roll Morton, one of the early pioneers of jazz, is actually a little miracle of exciting and inventive music making, radiating a propelling rhythmic force and shimmering with lovely melodies and technical brilliance.
* Since 2003, Turner has been pianist in the San Antonio-based Jim Cullum Jazz Band, the only full-time professional jazz band in the US.
Since 2003, Jim Turner has been the pianist in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band based in San Antonio, Texas, the only full-time professional traditional jazz band in the United States. In his album notes Jim writes: "Exactly what IS it about Jelly Roll Morton? As a 21st century musician, am I completely crazy to invest endless hours (wait a minute -- make that years) playing and studying Morton's nearly forgotten art? After all, his New Orleans jazz is about 100 years old and, to most listeners, his records sound like curious antiques - slightly misshapen oddities best left on the back shelves of music. For me, what is so enthralling is this: no other pianist has ever sounded remotely like Morton. If you listen closely enough, Jelly Roll Morton's scratchy old piano records are actually little miracles of exciting and inventive music making! They radiate propelling rhythmic force. They shimmer with lovely melodies and technical brilliance. And if you listen really closely, you can almost hear the echo of an entire New Orleans jazz band.....So, I'm happy to be one of those "modern" musicians who is spellbound by Jelly Roll Morton's "antique" music. I'll dust his records off and listen to them, look beyond their superficial layers of scratchiness, balance them carefully on their pedestals and rearrange them in the front of my display cabinet. Then, while contemplating them, I imagine I can hear the very birth of jazz."
--- Jim Turner
Jim Turner took over the piano chair in the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in 2003 after John Sheridan departed to work on his own. It's only fitting that the pianist playing in a traditional jazz band is devoted to learning the challenging early jazz works of Jelly Roll Morton, who in spite of being a bit of show-off and braggart, could back it up on the bandstand. In his solo treatments of 13 Morton works (plus a breathtaking "Tiger Rag," which was possibly composed by him, though no printed evidence has ever been located), Turner showcases the lyrical elegance of the pianist's songs while not resorting to play them like museum pieces. It was likely a challenge for Turner to avoid singing at least a few lyrics to some of the songs, though he probably wanted the emphasis placed on the piano. One exception is the closer, "Mr. Jelly Lord," which features vocalist Topsy Chapman sincerely singing Morton's self-serving lyrics, just as he did unabashedly in his Library of Congress recording. Fortunately, there is plenty of Morton material that can be explored by Jim Turner on future volumes. ~ Ken Dryden, All Music Guide
Jim Turner
Active Decades: '80s and '90s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ragtime, Stride
Pianist, composer, arranger, and producer Jim Turner was born and raised in LA, the son of classical pianist and teacher Robert E. Turner, which meant training on the piano began early in Turner's childhood. He went on to study jazz piano with both Johnny Guarnieri and Dick Cary, eventually graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara with a degree in music composition and arranging. He stepped into a highly successful career as a producer of piano recordings, working with his mentor Guarnieri, Robert Silverman, Roger Williams, Peter Nero, Floyd Cramer, Steve Allen, Teddy Wilson, George Shearing, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Liberace, Dick Hyman, and a host of other pianists with a wide variety of styles and approaches. Turner continued to play solo, as well, a master of stride and other jazz styles on the piano, and his first solo album, Old Fashioned Love: A Tribute to James P. Johnson, appeared from Euphonic Sounds in 1981. Poet and Peasant followed in 1986 from Sacramento Jazz, with The Dazzler arriving from Klavier Records in 1995, and Old Fashioned Love from Box Office Records in 1999. Turner joined Bob Ringwald's Great Pacific Jazz Band as a pianist and arranger in 1983, spending eight years with the group before joining the Jim Cullum Jazz Band in a similar capacity. He kept up his solo work, releasing Jelly Roll Blues: A Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton in 2009 on Arbors Records.
---Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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