Jelly Roll Morton

"Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton (1890-1941)"

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    members

    George Mitchell, cornet; Kid Ory, trombone; Omer Simeon, clarinet; Morton, piano; Johnny St. Cyr, banjo; John Lindsay, bass; Andrew Hilaire, drums.

    tags

    jazz, reefer, whore, 78 RPM's, public domain.

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    women, music, life.

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    GENRES: jazz, standards, big band
    LOCATION: LA, US
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    About
     

    I would give anything to live the life Jelly Roll Morton lived. I mean he was a bad MOFO! He played piano in the whorehouse of Storyville; he worked as a gambler, a comedian, a pool shark, and (of course) as a pimp. Can you imagine what this man's day to day affairs looked like? I may be romanticizing his life a little bit, and maybe he was a lonely and highly disturbed man. Most likely though, he was a lustrous character who had a huge cultural impact, and is widely understood to be the true creator of jazz music.