New Orleans-based arranger and pianist who was the jazz idiom's first important composer.
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Jelly Roll Morton
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1920s - 1940s

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

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