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- NAME: Jelly Roll Morton
- OCCUPATION: Songwriter, Pianist
- BIRTH DATE: October 20, 1890
- DEATH DATE: July 10, 1941
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New Orleans, Louisiana
- PLACE OF DEATH: Los Angeles, California
- Originally: Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
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Jelly Roll Morton was an American jazz pianist and composer who is regarded as jazz's first arranger, using semi-orchestrated effects in jazz-band performances.
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Jelly Roll Morton was an American jazz pianist and composer, known as "jazz's first arranger." Although he invited scorn by claiming he "invented jazz in 1902," Morton was certainly a pioneer in ragtime jazz. He performed professionally in New Orleans during the 1920s with his group Morton's Red Hot Peppers. His most remembered works include, "Black Bottom Stomp" and "Shoe Shiner's Drag."© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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