The Piano Rolls Digital MP3 Album

In the 1920s, the New Orleans–born “piano king” Jelly Roll Morton created performances on piano rolls, regarded as superior to sound recordings of the day. Piano-roll scholar Artis Wodehouse has converted 12 of Morton’s original piano rolls to computer data and recorded them on a Yamaha Disklavier. The result is an unprecedented opportunity to hear Morton’s compositions as he might have played them—in state-of-the-art digital sound.