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Composition and lyrics. "Need a Favor" is a country rock song [2] which centers on a man being on the verge of losing his daughter and praying for God to do him a favor, but also admitting he does not deserve it and hoping to repent for his past actions. [3] [4] Jelly Roll sings in the chorus, "I only talk to God when I need a favor / And I ...
Red Hot Peppers The Red Hot Peppers were a recording jazz band led by Jelly Roll Morton from 1926–1930. They were a seven- or eight-piece band formed in Chicago which recorded for Victor and featured some of the best New Orleans-style freelance musicians available, including cornetist George Mitchell, trombonist Kid Ory, clarinetists Omer Simeon and Johnny Dodds, banjoists Johnny St. Cyr and ...
Background In 1938, noted musicologist and Morton biographer Alan Lomax conducted a series of interviews with Morton at the Library of Congress. [1] Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe these recordings as Jelly Roll Morton's "virtual history of the birth pangs of jazz as it happened in the New Orleans of the turn of the century. His memory was unimpaired, although he chose to tell things as ...
Jelly Roll was open about why he feels it can be strange to develop friendships with the musicians he idolized as a child during a recent interview. The country music star was asked about meeting ...
Jelly Roll Morton. Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe ( né Lemott, [2] later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. [3] Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could ...
The Rock was listening to Jelly Roll music when Spotify numbers said only 30,000 people were listening to Jelly Roll," the musician told ET back in June. "He's really been with me from the beginning.
Here are 19 things to do this weekend in North Jersey, including lots of free live music Gannett Daniel Galioto, NorthJersey.com July 11, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Jelly's Last Jam is a musical with a book by George C. Wolfe, lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, and music by Jelly Roll Morton and Luther Henderson. Based on the life and career of Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known as Jelly Roll Morton and generally regarded as one of the primary driving forces behind the introduction of jazz to the American public in ...