PEARLS, THE

Created on 09/03/2006
Latest update on 06/04/2024

Artist: Jelly Roll Morton
Author: Ferdinand Morton
Label: Gennett
Year: 1923

Solo piano; first orchestral version: Jelly Roll's Red Hot Peppers in '27.

Covers:

1939:

Mary Lou Williams

1978:

Ry Cooder [in medley with Gene Rodemich's Tia Juana (see there)]

1993:

Dirty Dozen Brass Band

1999:

Dave Van Ronk

1999:

Wynton Marsalis

Jelly Roll also cut Tia Juana for Gennett. He usually mixed it with Mamanita, another Spanish tinged tune for his wife Anita.

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