The 78-rpm shellac disc “The Pearls” by Jelly Roll Morton is among the earliest solo piano records in jazz – waxed in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924. It’s on a spring-wound Victrola of similar vintage, manufactured by the Victor Talking Machine Company. The photo was used for the book cover of Jelly Roll, Bix & Hoagy: Gennett Studios and the Birth of Recording Jazz.
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