Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana. Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was ...
Jazz-master pieces.Focuses on jazz music in the United States. Reissue of works in music by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and Clarinet sage Sidney Bechet; Description of music by Morton; Video on music of drum master Art Blakey.MilesMiloAtlantic (02769077)...
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) Born Ferdinand LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist and composer with a knack for creating infectious melodies. A larger-than-life character, he claimed to have invented jazz single-handedly in 1902; though his assertion was often...
Born October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was raised in a musical family: his father, Ellis Marsalis, was a pianist, while brothers Branford, Delfeayo and Jason all pursued careers in jazz. Wynton received his first trumpet at the age of six from Al Hirt, with whom his father...
Jelly Roll Morton: Pianist 风格:Ragtime (海上钢琴师的原型) Art Tatum: Pianist 风格:Swing Duke Ellington: Pianist 风格:Swing,Bebop,Latin Bud Powell: Pianist 风格:Swing,Bebop Horace Silver: Pianist 风格:Hardbop Thelonious Monk: Pianist 风格:Bebop,Cool Jazz Bill Evans: Pianist 风格:Modal Jazz,Cool...
Earl Hines was the first major pianist to break up the striding, suspending time during wild breaks that utilized both of his hands in adventurous flights while always coming back without missing a beat. In addition, his right hand often played octaves so as to be heard clearly over ensembles...
Fellow jazz artist Roscoe Mitchell got him into the AACM, Chicago’s South Side collective, founded by jazz pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, dedicated to the supplementary alternative cultivation of the local musical arts: composition, improvisation, education, performance, business. In 1969, Braxton and...
Jelly Roll Morton:A pianist and composer who claimed to have invented jazz, but more importantly, he was an early champion of the genre. Louis Armstrong:His trumpet virtuosity and innovative solos helped establish jazz as a serious artform with a focus on individual expression. ...
New Orleans was the musical home of the first notable players and composers of jazz, including cornetists Buddy Bolden and King Oliver, cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Jazz soon spread from New Orleans to other ...
Morton was an American virtuoso pianist, a bandleader, and a composer whom some call the first true composer of jazz piano music. He blended blues and ragtime styles, a fusion that perhaps represented the origins of jazz music better than anything else. His "Jelly Roll Blues" (September 1915...