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Video created with Concert Creator: ?via=itsremco Fingerbreaker by Jelly Roll Morton played by Tom Mc Dermott. Many people know this composition from the movie: The Legend of 1900 during the piano battle scene: This is NOT the 'Fingerbuster', the Finger buster is composed by Willie “The Lion“ Smith. The story about Jelly Roll Morton's Fingerbreaker vs Willie “The Lion“ Smith's Fingerbuster: In his memoirs, Willie The Lion Smith recalls the story of a mythical cutting contest between him and Jelly Roll Morton in the early thirties: “Some people used to put me on by asking whether jazz was born in New Orleans and whether or not Jelly Roll invented it. I said once that was one of the worst things I ever heard. What I meant was that most of the jazz I knew was, in the beginning, from the brickyards. And another thing, jazz comes from the person’s soul and not from a state. But Jelly Roll was a guy who always talked a lot. He used to be around the Rhythm Club every day and stand out on the corner and he used to bull and con all those fellows. He had his twenty-dollar gold piece on and he’d stand out there with a bankroll, meaning money, so every time I’d come around, almost all the guys who used to play piano kept quiet. Sometimes I’d lay for Fats and Jimmy [James P. Johnson]. Sometimes I’d even lay for Tatum. But I used to come around especially on Friday and Saturday looking for Jelly. I went around this one Friday and he was standing on the corner.“ “Look, Mr. One-Hand,” I said, “let’s go inside and let me give you your lessons in cutting.” So Jelly and I would go inside by the piano. I was the only one he would stand and listen to and then he didn’t open his mouth. I must have played nearly everything you could name and when I got through, I said, “Well, Jelly, you’ll keep quiet now.” And, true as I’m sitting here, Jelly would be quiet.” Documentary link: In “Willie the Lion”, a documentary produced and directed by Marc Fields, Willie recalls the encounter in a slightly different way: “Well, I knew Jelly Roll well. I think I was the one of the few who did know him… He was a character. Quite a talker, he had a habit of tearing people apart. I challenged him in the Hoofer’s Club, in the Rhythm Club, I got him before nearly 300 musicians and I said “You call the terms and I’ll call them on the piano, and I’m gonna make you remember piano as long as you live”. And I could.” Read the full story on: This video quote: “Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.“ - Jelly Roll Morton Jelly Roll Morton - Topic ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ►Follow me on Instagram 📸: ►Follow me on Reddit 🤖: ►Add me on Discord 💻: itsRemco # 0827 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ My free practice recommendations I use myself: ►Perfect Ear app to train your hearing (Android & IOS) 👂🏽: ►Complete Music Reading Trainer (Only Android) 👀: ►Hanon exercises to improve the piano fingerwork 🖐🏽: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Things I recommend that I paid for to practice Jazz Piano: ►My current digital piano is the Roland RP501r 🎹: ►iReal Pro app to practice with backing tracks 📲: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #jellyrollmorton #fingerbreaker #thelegendof1900 #classicjazz #pianoduel #pianobattle #earlyjazz #ragtime #stridepiano #itsRemco #pianoanimation #classicjazzpiano #massivetechnologies #artificialintelligencepiano #concertcreatorai
