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Jelly Roll Morton

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Profession
Composer
Died
Jul 10, 1941
Zodiac
Libra
Born in
New Orleans LA
About
First great jazz composer whose "Jelly Roll Blues" became the first jazz composition to be published. He was also jazz's first arranger.
Family
He was born to F.P. Lamothe and Louise Monette. His parents were never married and instead had a common-law marriage. He convinced his religious mother that he was a night watchman at a barrel factory when he was really playing piano at a brothel. He married Mabel Bertrand in 1928.

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