Even over the telephone, Tom Roberts' musicianship shines through. "I don't know how well you can hear this over a cell phone, but this is the way it goes," he said recently from his home in ...

For jazz ensemble, Jelly Roll Morton, piano-leader; George Mitchell, cornet ; Kid Ory, trombone ; Omer Simeon, clarinet ; Johnny St. Cyr, banjo ; John Lindsay, bass ...

Riverside: RLP 9003. Program notes by Martin Williams on container. Production notes: Originally recorded in the Coolidge Auditorium of the Library of Congress during a five-week period beginning May ...