Transformers jazz biography jelly roll

Gorgeously illustrated by fine artist Keith Mallett, a newcomer to picture books, this biography will transport readers young and old to the musical, magical.

Spring—First met Jelly Roll Morton in Washington, DC. Wrote three chapters in Jazzmen, emphasizing and documenting New Orleans as the birthplace of jazz.

This biography of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton became an instant classic of jazz literature.

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John Davies Cale OBE (born 9 March ) is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet.

This biography of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton became an instant classic of jazz literature..

Name originally Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (some sources cite surname as Lemott or La Mothe); born September 20, 1885 (some sources say October 20, 1890), in Gulfport, LA (some sources say New Orleans, LA); died July 10, 1941, in Los Angeles, CA; son of F.P.

"Ed" and Louise (Monette) La Menthe.

When one hears of jazz having its roots in New Orleans, some of the first jazz musicians that come to mind are Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton. While jazz historian Gunther Schuller considered Armstrong "the first great soloist," he called Morton "the first great composer" in his book Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development .

In addition to being a composer, Morton was a vocalist, pianist, arranger, and ensemble leader. His contributions to the development of jazz were improvisational as well as compositional and his legacy endures in spite of the fact that he didn't make his first commercial recordings until 1923, twenty years after he first appeared on the New Orleans musical