Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers (1926 - 1929)
Jelly Roll Morton had a hit with his 1923
version of Wolverine Blues, this stirred
interest with the the Victor company who
were just starting to get into the "race
records" market and were looking for talent.
Jelly Roll assembled a group of musicians
who could play in the New Orleans style and
called them the Red Hot Peppers. Many of
the musican came from Lil
Hardin-Armstrong's recently disbanded
Dreamland Syncopators. The tracks recorded in Chicago in 1926 and 1927 are
considered some of the finest recordings in the "Hot Style". Morton moved to New
York and assembled another version of the band and went on to record with Victor
until 1930.
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