“If you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning, I call it, for jazz.”

About Jelly Roll Morton

Musician • American

Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton was a pioneering American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. He is widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, famously claiming to have invented the genre in...