Dead Man Blues by Jelly Roll Morton

~ JezzieG
Jelly Roll Morton 1890-1941

Dead Man Blues
1926
Blues

Jelly Roll Morton
Jazz, Blues
Born: 20 October 1890, Louisiana, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 10 July 1941, California, USA

Morton was a ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. He was jazz’s first arranger to prove that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. Morton’s composition, ‘Jelly Roll Blues’ (1915) was among the first published jazz compositions

Published by JezzieG

I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an ongoing project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever-growing love of poetry.