About This Song
About "The Pearls (Take 2)" by Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers
Take 2 of 'The Pearls' finds Morton polishing a gem with delicate precision. The title's jewels glint in the piano's cascading runs, but there's a melancholy beneath the sparkle—a sense that beauty, like a pearl, is formed around an irritant, and the music's elegance is hard-won.
