Sublime

“Sidewalk Blues,” recorded by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

Jelly Roll Morton made in the 1920s, in which he tries to retain the comparatively complex structures he had learned from the rag composers and still leave a little space for improvisation.

“Blues Walk”

by the early fifties, adolescents really seemed to consider themselves a “new breed” of some kind.

Musicians turned to simpler structures because recordings in the early days couldn’t capture more than about three minutes of music.

the fast and frenetic numbers seemed to capture the essence of bebop

Quest Loves Records, Part I “When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.”™ 1971: Stevie Wonder, Music of My Mind

arranger Gil Evans,