Born 20 October 1890. Died 10 July 1941.
Jelly Roll Morton is a performance name for the person Ferdinand Joseph Morton.
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1880s – July 10, 1941) was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902. Morton was the first serious composer of jazz, naming and popularizing the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues".
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| Release title | Release date |
|---|---|
| The Piano Rolls | 1997 |
| Kansas City Stomp: The Library of Congress Recordings, Volume 1 | 1993 |
| The Library Of Congress Recordings - Volume 3 - The Pearls | 1993 |
| Doctor Jazz | n/a |
| The Original Mr Jelly Lord | n/a |
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