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Long Play – Jelly Roll Morton & His Time @ ROOTS HOUSE – Nanshan
August 10, 2023 @ 8:30 pm
“LONG PLAY”
Jazz Film Theater
Vol.4The Pianist at Sea: 1900, and Jazz
4th anniversary8/10
Thursday
20:30
Jelly Roll Morton: I think you got my seat
1900: Are you the one who invented jazz?
Jelly Roll Morton: That’s what they call me, are you the one who can’t play music unless your seat is facing the sea
1900: This is what they say about me
Pianist at Sea: 1900, and Jazz 8/10
1900 & Jelly Roll Morton, and their time
The Crave,ROOTS HOUSE,1 minuteJazz, boats, loneliness, the piano is the best “pen” in 1900, and music is his entire soul and life. He said: ”Without me, I wouldn’t let my music go anywhere. ”
Not long after World War II, Max went to a British pawn shop to sell his trumpet, and the owner recognized by ear that the tune Max was playing was an unreleased record salvaged from a cruise ship turned hospital ship Records found and restored in fragments of pianos that came out. A good story is worth an old trumpet, and the owner’s exchange prompted Max to start telling the young man’s story. Everyone calls him 1900: the year he was born,duration02:44
The Legend of 1900 – Magic Waltz
In the film, Morton boarded the ship to openly challenge 1900, and the two had an epic life-and-death piano duel. Many viewers once thought of Morton as a fictional character created by screenwriters, but in fact, Jelly Roll Morton was a very real and pivotal figure in the early days of jazz, when music was transitioning from the ashes of ragtime to a fanatical new art form
,duration05:49
Jelly Roll Morton vs 1900, Piano WarSometimes anecdote blends so well with reality that it clings on like a second skin, subtle yet tenacious. There was a figure in the history of early jazz, a man who wrote on his business card “The Inventor of Jazz” whose colossal arrogance was enough to make his contemporaries nervous, and who, like all intelligent but irrepressible Like human beings, the magnificence on the outside hides the gap under the fragility. So many mist and doubts, he ended up poor and forgotten, but he has polished the gold and silver of “origin” jazz, bridging ragtime music that came before jazz and jazz to come the gap between the music that became
Time arrived in the 1930s, when jazz was not yet a subject of study, it was the age of the New Deal, and triumphant swing seemed to be a revival of sound and cheesy sounds to combat the great crisis of 29 years. The forgotten Jelly Roll Morton overheard a program on the radio in ’38 that called William Christopher Handy the ”inventor of jazz”. Jelly Roll Morton immediately picked up pen and paper and wrote a letter to the music newspaper, claiming to be the first “conscious body” of nascent jazz. Eventually, the arrogant claim reached the ears of Alan Lomax, who immediately traveled to Washington to track down the existence of Jelly Roll Morton, reconstructing the true mythical origins of jazz in eight hours of interview recordings, an impressive document. , which eventually appeared in a book by Alan Lomax. Huge and quick, like the magic fingers of that Creole pianist: The Inventor of Jazz, Mr. Jelly Roll Morton
The Jazz Age “Glue Field” vol. 11: The Age of Reality and Fiction, 1900 and Him
Why? I’m not enviousThe keys have a beginning and an end. The piano has 88 keys. The keys are limited, but the music is infinite. Among the limited keys, infinite moving notes can be created. I like this way, and I live like thisLand is too big a ship for me, a woman too beautiful, a journey too long, a perfume too strongTwo right arms are better than one arm, but how can two right arms play the piano, hope there is music in heavenIt’s not what I see that stops me, it’s what I can’t seeThe end of this huge city can’t be seen at all, can you tell me where it endsWe always say goodbye with a smile, but we know that the next time we will meet is far awaySometimes this is how you have to do it: back to the beginningI know there’s never a never-ending feast, and I’m leavingIt can’t be called the end unless it has an amazing storyI’m living a life that’s not great, but worthy of praiseWhy and how to competeI got to the sea, but found I couldn’t leave the shoreLife is infinite, can you understanda good story trumps everything
Fuck his rules!Fuck his jazz!
“The Legend of 1900”
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