About This Song
About "Seattle Hunch (Take 1)" by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
A first take that feels like a rehearsal in a rain-slicked alley: Jelly Roll Morton's piano rolls with a hunch, a coiled spring of early jazz. The Red Hot Peppers trade sly, unsettled phrases, balancing buoyant swing with a nagging, cryptic tension that never quite resolves.