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
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