The Naked Dance

Jelly Roll Morton · 1939 · Face de la séance General de décembre 1939

Context

Jelly Roll Morton recorded "The Naked Dance" in New York on December 14, 1939, for General Records, on record 4002, whose other side is "Michigan Water Blues." These December 1939 sessions are among Morton's last.

In the genealogy of jazz

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

By the same artist

• Climax Rag (1939)
• Black Bottom Stomp (1926)
• King Porter Stomp (1923)

Sources

• EN: General Records

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