Frank Melrose

About the artist

Frank Melrose (November 26, 1907 – September 1, 1941) was an American jazz and blues pianist, who recorded as Kansas City Frank Melrose. Franklyn Taft Melrose was born in Sumner, Illinois, the younger brother of Walter and Lester Melrose who set up the Melrose Brothers Music Company in Chicago in 1918, and went on to become leading figures in the Chicago blues and jazz scene of the 1920s and 1930s. Frank’s first instrument was the violin, but he later took up the piano.

Top songs

  1. Jelly Roll Stomp
  2. Pass The Jug
  3. Piano Breakdown
  4. Cosmics
  5. Pass The Jug (Album Version)
  6. Whoopee Stomp
  7. Jelly Roll Stomp (Gen 6774, 14802-)
  8. Distant Moan
  9. Market Street Jive
  10. Whoopee Stomp (piano solo) -3-1929
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  1. Corrine Romp
  2. Little Sound on Schiller Street
  3. The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
  4. I Got Rhythm
  5. If You're a Viper
  6. Bud's Blues
  7. Rosetta
  8. Bluesiana
  9. Boy in the Boat
  10. You Took Advantage of Me
  11. New Orleans Blues
  12. How Come You Do Me Like You Do
  13. Lady Be Good
  14. Whoopee Stomp tk 2
  15. Nothing to It
  16. Wailing Blues
  17. Sugarfoot Strut
  18. Body and Soul
  19. Moscow Mule
  20. Original Stomp
  21. Have You Ever Felt That Way
  22. Pass The Jug (Ge)
  23. Jelly Roll Stomp (Ge)
  24. Jelly Roll Stomp (Br)
  25. Pass The Jug (Br)
  26. Whoopee Stomp (piano solo)
  27. Rock My Soul
  28. St. James' Infirmary Blues
  29. Whoopee Stomp (6909)
  30. Frank Melrose / Pass the Jug
  31. 12 - pass the jug
  32. Barrel House Stomp
  33. Rock My Soul tk 1
  34. 01 - Jelly Roll Stomp
  35. Whoopee Stomp (Test)
  36. Whoopee Stomp [Test]

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