The Jelly Roll Morton Centennial: His Complete Victor Recordings

This 1990 centennial compilation collects Jelly Roll Morton’s Victor-era sides from the 1920s, showcasing his merging of ragtime, blues and early jazz with a strong stride-influenced piano style. The set alternates solo piano pieces and small-group ensemble tracks that display Morton’s rhythmic inventiveness, tight arrangements and use of stop-time and ensemble effects, and it serves as a central document of his role in shaping the piano-based jazz tradition.