Tia Juana (Tee Wana) - Jelly Roll Morton

That was the «Kansas City Stomp.»

You may notice that

In playing jazz, the breaks are one of the most

Essential things that you can ever do in jazz.

Without

Breaks and without clean breaks, without beautiful

Ideas in breaks, you don’t need to even think about

Doin' anything else.

If you can’t have a decent break

You haven’t got a jazz band, or you can’t even play

Jazz

Show us a good break, Jelly

Now that’s what you’d call a pretty good break.

For

Instance, I’ll play just a little bit of a melody of

Somethin' and show you

That’s what you’d call a break.

.

Maybe I’d better play something that you can understand

More.

For instance, «Strutters' Ball.»

I made those blakes.

.. breaks kind of clean, because

The fact of it is, everybody knows this tune and they

Know how it’s played and they’ll know where the breaks

Come in

Without a break you have nothing.

Even if a tune have

No break in it, it is always necessary to arrange some

Kind of a spot to make a break.

Because without a

Break, as I said before, you haven’t gotten jazz.

.

And, er, your accurate tempos with your backgrounds of

Your figures, which is called riffs today.

Of course

That, that happens to be a musical term — riffs

What’s the difference between a riff and a break?

Aren’t they about the same thing?

Oh, no, no.

There’s a difference, er, a riff is a

Background.

A riff is what you would call a foundation

As, like you would walk on.

It’s something that’s

Standard.

And a break is something that you break.

When

You make the break — that means all the band break

With maybe one, two, or three instruments.

It depends

Upon how the combination is arranged.

And as you, as

The band breaks, you have a set, given time, possibly

Two bars, to make the break

Isn’t.

.. isn’t the break what you.

.. when you

When you make break, isn’t that what you mean by

Swinging?

No, no, that’s not what swing is.

Swing don’t mean

That.

Swing means something like this: