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Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition. Morton also wrote the standards "King Porter Stomp", "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment. The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's "hyperbolic assertions" that there is "no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's "considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation". Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egoist:
In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting. If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because "All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class." So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points". --Quoted in John Szwed, Dr Jazz.
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Albums
Dead Man Blues Single
Midnight Mama Single
The Pearls Single
The “Jelly Roll” Blues Single
Tom Cat Blues Single
Grandpa’s Spells Single
King Portor Single
London Blues Single
Mr. Jelly Lord Single
Shreveport Stomp Single
Stratford Huntch Single
Tin Roof Blues Single
Popular Songs
- Sergeant Dunn’s Bugle Call Blues
- Buffalo Blues
- You Need Some Loving
- Ham and Eggs
- Load of the Coal
- Grandpa's Spell
- "Of All His Mother's Children He Loved Jelly the Best": A Little Tale of Jelly Roll Morton
- "Guitar Blues"
- Jazz Is Just a Makeup: Buddy Bolden, Honky Tonks, Brass Band Funerals, and Parades
- "Coon Blues"
- The Story of the "Coon Blues"
- Young Sidney Bechet: Jim Crow and the Dangers of the District
- The Main Idea in Jazz: "Just Watch Me" – Improvising and Reading Music
- Bad Men and Pimps
- How Johnny St. Cyr Learned to Play Guitar
- Playing Hot With Buddy Bolden
- Sporting Life Costumes
- Old-Time Creole Musicians and the French Element
- Creoles Playing With Negroes: Getting That Drive
- Jelly Roll's Compositions
- "Eh, La Bas"
- Buddy Bolden: Man and Musician
- In the Publishing Business
- Hot Bands and Creole Tunes
- At the Cadillac Café, Los Angeles, continued
- "Little Liza Jane," continued
- Jelly Roll's Early Playing Days in the District
- "Boogie Woogie Blues"
- The Pensacola Kid and the Cadillac Café
- "Buddy Bertrand's Blues," continued