- Bluebird's Best: Jazz King of New Orleans (Remastered) · 1926
- Bluebird's Best: Jazz King of New Orleans (Remastered) · 2002
- Bluebird's Best: Jazz King of New Orleans (Remastered) · 1926
- Ferd 'Jelly Roll' Morton 1923-1926 · 1995
- The Original Mr. Jelly Lord 1923-1941 · 2000
- Deep Creek · 2008
- The Original Mr. Jelly Lord 1923-1941 · 2000
- The Original Mr. Jelly Lord 1923-1941 · 1968
- Smoke House Blues · 1935
- The Original Mr. Jelly Lord 1923-1941 · 2000
- Ferd 'Jelly Roll' Morton 1923-1926 · 1995
- Piano Solos - Jelly Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories · 1997
- Jelly Roll Morton · 1995
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- Jazz's first arranger was also the catchiest songwriter in ragtime.
- His compositions merged blues with jazz.
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About Jelly Roll Morton
Jelly Roll Morton may have been indulging in typical hyperbole when he advertised himself as the inventor of jazz, but one has to concede his role as the idiom's first important composer. A wonderful pianist who could also sing, he brilliantly distilled the polyglot influences of his native New Orleans into masterpieces of pulsating polyphony on his classic recordings of the 1920s, including "Dead Man Blues" and "Black Bottom Stomp." Morton's later career was short-circuited by ever-shifting musical trends, but his Library of Congress interviews with Alan Lomax provide a unique insight into the nearly vanished musical culture from which he had sprung.
- HOMETOWN
- New Orleans, LA, United States
- BORN
- 20 October 1885
- GENRE
- Jazz