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'Morton Hears the Womb' is a children's parody of the classic Dr. Seuss book 'Horton Hears a Who.' 'Morton Hears the Womb' is written and illustrated by Debi Gatlyn.
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More of the 1926-'27 Hot Style jazz from Jelly Roll Morton. These cuts were made for Victor Records-the company wanted into the "race records" business and Jelly Roll capitalized on that need by forming his Red Hot Peppers in 1926. Those '26-'27 Chicago recordings set the standard for decades. The Black Bottom was the new dance craze of the middle 1920s.
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At the Full Gospel Fellowship International Conference in 2006 in New Orleans, LA.
This is the song Bishop Morton sang before he preached the closing sermon for the conference.
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Jelly Roll Morton considered himself to be the "inventor of jazz". Although this certainly is an exaggeration, he was crucial in development of early jazz. This typical composition was recorded for Hot Jazz Club America on September 15th, 1926.