 Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers
Chicago, September 1926
Jelly Roll Morton is shown lecturing his very first Red Hot Peppers band.
standing left to right:
Omer Simeon (cl); Andrew Hilaire (d); John Lindsay (sb); Johnny St. Cyr (bj-g); Kid Ory (tb) and George Mitchell (c) The photograph was probably taken in the ballroom of the Webster Hotel, Chicago. The Bloom photograph studio was located in the State-Lake Theatre Building, Chicago. Bloom advertised in the New York Dramatic Mirror on 4th June 1921. [39]
At the same session another photograph of the Red Hot Peppers was taken, where they were shown playing their instruments.
This photograph was first published in A Pictorial History of Jazz, by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer (1955), page 62. [3] Shown in Mr. Jelly Lord (1980) by Laurie Wright, page 209, and in Oh, Mister Jelly (1999) edited by William Russell, page 404. courtesy of Ate van Delden
© 2004 Ate van Delden Collection
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