Black Bottom Stomp

Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers · 1926

Context

Recorded in Chicago in 1926 by the Red Hot Peppers, this track shows New Orleans jazz written with precision by Jelly Roll Morton: breaks, stop-time passages and a final trio section are all composed in advance. It blends ragtime, blues and Caribbean touches, mattered to young musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke, and has been in the National Recording Registry since 2006.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to New Orleans jazz. Among the origins and influences of New Orleans jazz: Blues, spirituals, work songs, Afro-diasporic roots, Ragtime, New Orleans.

By the same artist

• King Porter Stomp (1923)

Sources

• EN: Black Bottom Stomp
• EN: Red Hot Peppers
• blogs.loc.gov

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