 Jelly-Roll Morton and His Orchestra
at the Victor Studios, Camden, New Jersey, July 1929
Shown left to right are:
Rod Rodriguez (p): Jelly Roll Morton (p): Barney Alexander (bj): George Baquet (cl)
William Laws (d): Harry Prather (bb): Walter Thomas (as): Charlie Irvis (tb)
Joe Thomas (ts): Boyd Rosser (tp): Walter Briscoe (tp): Paul Barnes (as) The earliest known print of this photograph that I am aware of is in A Pictorial History of Jazz (1955) by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer Jr., page 64. [3] That print shows “doctoring” at the bottom, where a large half-round hole has been filled in, as well as a triangle in the lower right-hand corner.
Other later prints, in both Mr. Jelly Lord (1980) by Laurie Wright, page 68, and Oh, Mister Jelly (1999) edited by William Russell, page 463, show similar evidence of adaptation.
I used a print from Doctor Jazz Magazine No. 52, page 23, dated February 1972, which was made from a clipping in a Dutch collector’s pre-war scrapbook. [8] I am still wondering where he obtained that clipping. courtesy of Ate van Delden
© 2004 Ate van Delden Collection
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