Credit: Duncan P. Schiedt

Jelly Roll Morton

New Orleans-based arranger and pianist who was the jazz idiom's first important composer.

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1900s - 1940s

October 20, 1890 in New Orleans, LA

July 10, 1941 in Los Angeles, CA

Jazz

Early Jazz, New Orleans Jazz, Dixieland, Jazz Instrument, Piano Jazz, Keyboard

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