| # | Title | Artist | Rating | Length |
|---|
| 1 | "Original Jelly Roll Blues" (Guitar Instrumental) | Johnny St. Cyr | | 1:52 |
| 2 | Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 1:23 |
| 3 | Hot Bands and Creole Tunes (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 4:30 |
| 4 | "Eh, La Bas" (Song) / Riffs and Breaks From Creole Songs (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 2:03 |
| 5 | Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element (Spoken) | Leonard Bechet and Alan Lomax | | 3:33 |
| 6 | Playing Hot With Buddy Bolden (Spoken) | Paul Dominguez, Jr., Alphonse Picou, and Alan Lomax | | 3:18 |
| 7 | "High Society" (Instrumental) | Alphonse Picou and Paul Dominguez, Jr. | | 2:17 |
| 8 | Sporting Life Costumes (Spoken) | Albert Glenny, Leonard Bechet, and Alan Lomax | | 1:39 |
| 9 | Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician (Spoken) | Albert Glenny, Leonard Bechet, and Alan Lomax | | 2:24 |
| 10 | Creoles Playing With Negroes: Getting That Drive (Spoken) | Leonard Bechet and Alan Lomax | | 4:29 |
| 11 | Jelly Roll's Compositions (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 3:23 |
| 12 | How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 2:21 |
| 13 | "Guitar Blues" (Guitar Instrumental) / Just the Guitar Blues (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 2:18 |
| 14 | Bad Men and Pimps (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 3:39 |
| 15 | The Story of the "Coon Blues" (Spoken) | Alphonse Picou and Alan Lomax | | 1:35 |
| 16 | "Coon Blues" (Instrumental) | Alphonse Picou and Paul Dominguez, Jr. | | 2:23 |
| 17 | Jazz Is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades (Spoken) | Albert Glenny, Leonard Bechet, and Alan Lomax | | 5:26 |
| 18 | Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District (Spoken) | Leonard Bechet and Alan Lomax | | 3:41 |
| 19 | The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" – Improvising and Reading Music (Spoken) | Albert Glenny, Leonard Bechet, and Alan Lomax | | 3:25 |
| 20 | "Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best": A Little Tale of Jelly Roll Morton (Spoken) | Johnny St. Cyr and Alan Lomax | | 8:50 |