About Jelly Roll Morton: Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.
I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
