jelly roll morton
- n United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)
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- Remembering the Father of Son: Arsenio Rodríguez
He was a prolific composer who helped found an international musical movement, a highly syncopated African diaspora sound that he controversially claimed credit for inventing, but when he died in obscurity in Los Angeles he ended up in an unmarked grave. That was the sad story of New Orleans jazz patriarch Jelly Roll Morton. But, in a disconcertingly similar case of neglected genius, Cuban tres ...
July 25, 2013 - Berkeleyside - Ragtime Orchestra performs at 'Jammin' in July' series in Hackettstown
Before Robert Johnson (reportedly) sold his soul to be able to play the blues, and before Jelly Roll Morton came up with the arrangements that defined jazz, there was ragtime.
July 25, 2013 - Asbury Park Press