I've been spending the weekend with an old friend in Shropshire. My friend recently bought several of the effects of the late jazz and blues author and critic Derrick Stewart-Baxter. Among them was a framed music manuscript by Jelly Roll Morton - part of a piano waltz called "Golden Wedding". As far as I know, the waltz has never been published.

I photographed the sheet, transcribed it and produced a recording of it on piano. If you're interested in seeing a JPG file of the ms., click the first link below. If you'd like to hear what it sounds like, click the second link.

Golden Wedding (fragment) - picture

Golden Wedding (fragment) - sound file

Although only a fragment, it bears many of the hallmarks of Morton in the harmonies and in the melody line - particularly in the short "B" part. Quite charming, and a shame it wasn't completed. If anyone does know of a complete version - please say.