Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Blue Blood Blues (1930)

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 hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902. Critic Scott Yanow writes that "Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth (yet) 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 Morton and his Red Hot Peppers - Blue Blood Blues (1930)

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[musky527]

Thanks for posting!!!! I'm old enough to remember Jelly

Roll Morton and this music albeit I was young.l I was born

in 1927. I'm now 81 soon to be 82!

[hereitcomesagain]

Thanks for all your wonderful posts and all the great historical info you provide. Awesome!

[Pentagonshark666]

Jelly Roll Morton is without a doubt the father of jazz.

[ScooterpupReljac]

In New Orleans, this is a favorite Christmas-time tune.

[MrNeary2010]

and it stoned me just like jelly roll

[BlindFocus1]

@musky527 Beautiful, simply beautiful. I'm a late teenager, but I wish my great-grandparents were still alive, bc I'm sure they'd remember him. I just wish I would've asked them about this when they were living. May God Bless you with many years to come :)

[angrrra]

@musky527 =)))))))))))

[lazurm]

@popatire23 Hey, I'm 103 and I not only work a computer, but fix'm, make one's for my friends, and program them in machine language. (Just kidding), yea, musky527 is a cool nerd!

[sirjuandabicho]

Bellisimo, muchas gracias.

[mivec25]

amazingly polyrhythmic

[popatire23]

@musky527

And you can work a computer?? That' just too awesome. You are awesome.

[zeppelindan500]

I don't think that The Dead Weather's song is related in any way other than the title.