Jelly Roll Morton

Jelly Roll Morton started playing Buddy Bolden's music on the piano and writing it down.
It was not Ragtime nor the blues but a loping smooth four to the bar mix which became jazz, with all the breaks and tricks, full of Haberna rhythms and the 'Spanish tinge'.
In the bordellos of Storeyville then on the road from 17 and then to New York in 1923 and Melrose Brothers. 
He demonstrated the collective three part polyphony of improvised New Orleans jazz could be orchestrated and written down.
The Red Hot Peppers were superb.
But younger men we on the move - Duke Ellington and Fletcher Henderson.


Jelly Roll Morton - it's all at the wonderful Mike Meddings website !!

 

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