Customer Reviews for The Best of Jelly Roll Morton
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Christoph Cringle
Location: from 25866 Mildstedt; Germany
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
June 12, 2007
What did they do to Jelly Roll ?
This is definitely nothing of Jelly Roll Morton ! In fact, it has nothing to do with him or his music. Take "Shreveport Stomps" as an example: bars are missing, naturals and flats are missing, the whole score is just full of mistakes; so I´m still looking for a good notated version. Don´t buy it !
16 of 27 people found this review helpful.
JA
Location: from Oakland
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 19, 2001
What is this?
Though I'm not the expert Butch is, I've also noticed that these arrangements bear little resemblance to the JRM I've heard or what I've seen in other JRM sheetmusic. Does anyone know what this is or where it came from? In some cases it seems the chord changes fit for the songs but that's about it.
14 of 21 people found this review helpful.
Butch Thompson
Location: from St. Paul, MN
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
January 23, 2001
Inaccurate arrangements
I have studied and played Morton's music for many years, and these so-called arrangements bear no resemblance to anything he ever played or published. This is a serious misrepresentation of his music.
20 of 28 people found this review helpful.