Jelly Roll Morton
Credit: Duncan P. Schiedt

Jelly Roll Morton

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

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1900s - 1940s

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Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
Ferdinand Joseph Lemott
Ferdinand Joseph Lemott Morton
Ferdinand Le Menthe