Uploaded by edmundusrex on Nov 14, 2009
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (Sept.20,1885 or Oct.20,1890 - July 10,1941) was an American ragtime pianist, bandleader and composer.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional yperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902.
Critic Scott Yanow writes that "Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth, Morton's accomplishments as an early innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth."
Morton was the first serious composer of jazz, naming and popularizing the so-called "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say".
Jelly Roll Mortons Levee Serenaders - Midnight Mama (1928)
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Is that George Mitchell on Cornet? Sounds like he's bout t play Tom Cat Blues! lol. Thanks for sharing!
Austin Casey (Kingoliver45)
kingoliver45 2 months ago
Unparalleled in the whole of JAZZ .JRM was one fo the greatest.Thank you for slipping this our way.
Squarerig 1 year ago
Thanx for sharing this wonderful music. There's nothing else quite like it.
stlivermore 2 years ago