Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth20 October 1890
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
music piano feelings
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
cities kansas-city new-orleans
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
music style may
Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
music years new-orleans
It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
peculiar world strange
In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
ducks knees jazz
I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.
differences new-orleans house
The sporting houses needed professors, and we had so many different styles that... it wouldn't make any difference that you just came from . . . whatever your tunes were over there, we played them in New Orleans.