Song information for finger breaker dick hyman on allmusic. Piano interactive download by jelly roll morton, benny goodman, glenn miller, count basie, harry james, and fletcher henderson. Tricky impossible song finger breaker jelly roll morton in piano tiles 2. Song information for finger breaker dick hyman on allmusic allmusic. Print and download in pdf or midi the finger breaker. Jelly roll morton from finger breaker jelly role morton nickcarr changed description of finger breaker jelly role morton. I made my first record in 1918 for some company in california.
He was a consultant on jelly s last jam, the broadway show on morton s life, and last year, when a new york nightclub wanted to put together a show of morton s music, it called thompson. The jelly roll blues for saxophone quartet satb look inside listen. The finger breaker sheet music download free in pdf or. Jelly wrote this to show of to new york ragtime pianists a. Jelly roll morton jungle blues sheet music piano solo.
Jelly roll morton bio, facts, family famous birthdays. Print and download finger buster sheet music by jelly roll morton arranged for piano. Jelly roll morton finger buster 6klz20mwwvlg idocpub. Each cassette was recorded to a single wavformat file. Anony32 added finger breaker to piano songs board random vpmpp sheets.
The finger breaker jelly roll morton 1938 sheet music. His one hand stunt, left hand alone, playing a classic selection, is a good one. I propose to drop the second note of the passage instead of using one finger for two notes. Finger breaker jazz music entertainment general scribd. In alan lomax recorded him in for series of interviews about early jazz for the library of congress, but it wasnt until a decade later that these interviews were released to the public. The complete library of congress recordings of jelly roll morton is staggering in its depth and magnitude. All jelly roll morton transcriptions you can order by email and download in pdf, midi, sib, mus. The finger breaker sheet music download free in pdf or midi. Jelly roll morton the finger breaker by dick hyman. The result is a fine exposition of the musical possibilities of solo fingerstyle guitar playing and a worthy tribute to jelly roll morton, one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. Jelly roll morton 1 pianist, composer, bandleader a colorful character 2 pioneered jazz style 3 eclectic musical influences 4 recorded musical legacy after the fact 5 selected discography 6 sources 7 when one hears of jazz having its roots in new orleans 8, some of the first jazz. Jelly roll morton finger buster sheet music piano solo.
The recipe is something a lot of people are pointing out as out of place. Rhythmically, tension is created by the juxtaposition of right hand figures in 3 against the left hand in 4. Jelly roll morton 20 october 1890 10 july 1941 alternative namestransliterations. The focus is mostly on jelly roll morton s childhood and young adulthood.
Ferdinand jelly roll morton, dick hyman transcriptions for orchestra. Morton, jelly roll is a slight reminder of string beans. Ferdinand joseph lemott, ferdinand joseph lamothe, ferdinand. Your highresolution pdf file will be ready to download in the original.
A different matter is leonard feathers assertion, in the liner notes for dick hymans columbia lp with the music of jelly roll morton, that morton s the finger breaker was his only real piece of stride piano. Twenty years ago, the world was rediscovering scott joplin and. Jelly roll morton states in lomaxs mister jelly roll. Finger breaker piano tiles wiki fandom powered by wikia. Finger breaker jelly roll morton psdoh j l x sidz l j g iadg h k z uopsl k h f psyd g j l yak h g d otps f h j tpj g f s ora d g h euoh f s a. Morton s piano style was formed from early secondary ragtime and shout, which also evolved separately into the new york school of stride piano. While this statement provoked much criticism, morton is widely considered. Finger buster fingerbreaker by jelly roll morton sheet music.
J elly roll morton was the first important composer and arranger of new orleans jazz, as well as an agile pianist, a compelling singer, and one of the early jazz worlds most flamboyant characters. July 10, 1941 was an american ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer. Anony32 renamed finger breaker jelly roll morton from finger breaker anony32 moved finger breaker lower anony32 changed description of finger breaker. Reb spikes, mutt carey, wade waley whaley, kid orey ory and i recorded the wolverines and king porter, but we never heard from those records.
Recorded with a teac ad500 cassette deck, a desktop computer with a modern soundblaster sound card, and the audio recording program goldwave. Here is an intimate oral history of music and culture in new orleans and along the gulf coast with demonstrative musical accompaniment. Jelly roll morton finger buster from film the legend of 1900 jelly roll morton frances. Niven collection of jazz history, a cassette recording from the jazz artist jelly roll morton, from the era of 19261928. Ferdinand joseph lamothe october 20, 1890 july 10, 1941, known professionally as jelly roll morton, was an american ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Morton actually plays a bb dominant seventh chord as in the left hands second and fourth beats of the previous measure. The finger breaker jelly roll morton download free in pdf or midi. Early stride pianists that he had fine technique too. Jelly roll morton the finger breaker by dick hyman youtube. I downloaded the midi file and opened it with notation musician. This bar and the repeating are taken from an other version. Finger breaker jelly roll morton on random vpmpp sheets. A scan of the book excluding the sheet music can be viewed at document151805292jellyrollmorton1 scans of the finger.
The difficulty on that song is impossible, since finger breaker has tricky slider tiles, even at the end with 10. The nickname jelly roll was derived from sexual slang, and morton was a stage moniker. King porter stomp jelly roll morton transcribed by thomas mueller 201029 the version i used is probably from 1926. Original jelly roll blues morton, jelly roll imslp. It does feel like it stops the story, and its a little awkward. They do an amusing comedy bit, singing that aint got. See more ideas about jelly roll morton, jazz and jazz blues. Jelly roll morton finger buster sheet music piano solo in bb. The complete library of congress recordings jelly roll. Jelly roll morton free sheet music to download in pdf. Jelly roll morton was an american pianist and songwriter known for influencing the formation of modern day jazz during the 1920s. This collection pays tribute to jelly roll morton the composer, giving his melodies full respect rather than turning them into improvisational vehicles. Beautifully restored especially considering the fact that this material was originally etched onto aluminum platters the morton interviews are able.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, morton claimed, in selfpromotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902. This one was a lot easier to read, but some notes seemed innacurate tone wise. Morton s right hand riffs are not characteristic stride figures and the left hand bass notes are an octave higher than you would expect from a fully fledged. Check out the finger breaker by jelly roll morton on amazon music. Try disabling any ad blockers and refreshing this page. In alan lomax recorded him in for series of interviews about early jazz for the library of congress, but it wasnt until a decade later that these interviews were released to. Heres ferd jelly roll morton s own recording of his famous finger breaker. As pianist butch thompson told us in the stride piano list a. Shreveport stomp jelly roll morton finger buster jelly roll morton the crave jelly roll morton arrangements of this song. How jelly roll morton invented jazz by jonah winter. See more ideas about jelly roll morton, jazz and jelly. The collected piano music morton, jelly roll imslp. Morton was jazzs first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated.
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