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(October 20th 1885 (1890?) - July 10th 1941)
Born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in either October of 1885 or 1890 in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of downtown New Orleans, Louisiana as a child he showed a great aptitude for music. His parents were Edward Joseph Lamothe, a bricklayer by trade, and Louise Hermance Monette, a domestic worker. When his mother remarried William Mouton in 1894 he took his stepfather's surname, adapting it to Morton. At age four-teen he began working as a pianist in the sporting houses of Storyville, New Orleans' notorious red light district where he acquired his famous nickname.
A figure widely recognized as the first great jazz composer Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton was a prominent New Orleans pianist and bandleader whose stylistic development traversed the ragtime and jazz eras.
Videos:
Big Fat Ham (2:57)
Big Time Woman (3:17)
Billy Goat Stomp (3:40)
Black Bottom Stomp (3:12)
Blue Blood Blues (3:11)
Boogaboo (3:15)
Buddy Bolden's Blues (3:14)
Burnin' The Iceberg (3:09)
Climax Rag (2:25)
Crazy Chords (2:54)
Creepy Feeling (3:28)
Dead Man Blues (3:25)
Deep Creek (3:26)
Don't Tell Me Nothin' 'Bout My Man (3:00)
Dr. Jazz (3:31)
Fat Meat And Greens (3:04)
Fussy Mabel (3:14)
Georgia Swing (2:29)
Grandpa's Spells (3:18)
Ham And Eggs (3:04)
Hyena Stomp (3:15)
I Hate A Man Like You (3:41)
Jelly at The Monarch Saloon (8:50)
Jungle Blues (3:28)
Kansas City Stomps (3:02)
King Porter (2:32)
King Porter Stomp (5:08)
Mama Nita (2:59)
Maple Leaf Stomp (2:41)
Midnight Mama (2:57)
Milenberg Joys (2:52)
Muddy Water Blues (3:10)
My Gal (2:40)
New Crawley Blues (3:00)
New Orleans Joys (2:50)
Original Jelly Roll Blues (3:06)
Pep (3:35)
Pretty Lil (3:11)
She's Got What I Need (3:01)
Sidewalk Blues (3:28)
Sobbin' Blues (2:47)
Someday Sweetheart Blues (3:31)
Steamboat Stomp (3:09)
The Chant (3:10)
The Crave (4:33)
The Pearls (3:26)
Tom Cat Blues (2:49)
When They Get Lovin' They's Gone (3:35)
Wolverine Blues (3:26)
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