High Society

~ Recording by Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans Jazzmen

Appears on releases

#TitleLengthTrack artistRelease titleRelease artistRelease group typeCountry/DateLabelCatalog#
Official
1.7High Society2:51Jelly Roll Morton’s New Orleans JazzmenSummertimeSidney BechetAlbum + Compilation
Music Memoria787977 2

Relationships

clarinet:Albert Nicholas (on 1939-09-14)
double bass:Wellman Braud (on 1939-09-14)
drums (drum set):Zutty Singleton (on 1939-09-14)
guitar:Lawrence Lucie (on 1939-09-14)
piano:Jelly Roll Morton (on 1939-09-14)
soprano saxophone:Sidney Bechet (on 1939-09-14)
tenor saxophone:Happy Caldwell (American jazz reed player) (on 1939-09-14)
trombone:Claude Jones (on 1939-09-14)
trumpet:Sidney De Paris (on 1939-09-14)
recording of:High Society (jazz standard, with lyrics added c. 1920s to a 1901 march, supposedly never performed except instrumentally) (on 1939-09-14)

High Society (jazz standard, with lyrics added c. 1920s to a 1901 march, supposedly never performed except instrumentally)

lyricist:Walter Melrose
composer:Porter Steele (in 1901-04)
later translated versions:Van 1, 2, 3
is based on:High Society (march composed by Porter Steele in 1901)
is the basis for:High Society (Armand J. Piron/Clarence Williams)