New Orleans Blues (Morton, Jelly Roll)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1 movement
Composition Year	1902 ca. or 1905 ca.
Genre Categories	Blues; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player

1 Performances
- 1.1 Naxos
2 Sheet Music
- 2.1 Scores
3 General Information
4 Navigation etc.

Performances

Naxos

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Sheet Music

Scores

Complete Score
*#440067 - 0.12MB, 2 pp. - 0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/21/V - 3280×⇩ - JamesBrigham

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Publisher. Info.	New York: Edwin H. Morris & Co., 1925.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
Misc. Notes	A low quality scan with some pencil marks. Grace notes difficult to read and some possible errors.
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Complete Score
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Engraving files (MuseScore and MusicXML)
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General Information

Work Title	New Orleans Blues
Alternative. Title	New Orleans Joys
Composer	Morton, Jelly Roll
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IJM 2
Key	B-flat major
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	1 movement
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1902 ca. or 1905 ca.
First Publication.	1925
Average DurationAvg. Duration	3 minutes
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Early 20th century
Piece Style	Jazz
Instrumentation	piano

Navigation etc.

First recorded as a piano solo in 1923. Morton was recorded by Alan Lomax as saying he wrote this piece in 1902. In a letter by Morton printed in Downbeat magazine in 1938 he claimed to have written the piece in 1905.