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=Jelly Roll Morton By: Dayana =

= Birth = == Jelly Roll Morton's birth name was Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe and was born on September 20, 1885. He sadly died July 10, 1941 at the age of 55. Morton was born in a neighborhood downtown of New Orleans. His birth certificate was kind of mixed up, but there half-sisters most likely thought it was September 20, 1885 his real birth date. He changed **his name by adding the "r" instead of the "u" in Mouton witch was his stepfather's name. Jelly Roll Morton started to learn piano at age 10.**== =He was one of the first great jazz artists!= =** During years **= ==**At the age of fourteen, he began working as a piano player in a sporting house. While working there, he was living with his religious great-grandmother and lied to her and told him he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory. That's where h****e took the nickname Jelly Roll.** **Morton's grandmother found out he was playing jazz and kicked him out of her house. She had told him he was forbidden to live in her house. She called jazz devil music.**==

Tony Jackson, also a pianist at brothels and an accomplished guitar player, was a big influence on his music according to Morton; Jackson was the only pianist better than himself.
= New York City = ==In November 1928, Morton married Mabel Bertrand in Indiana, and moved to New York City, where he continued to record for Victor. His piano solos and trio recordings are well observed, but his band recordings suffer in comparison with the Chicago sides where Morton could draw on many great New Orleans musicians for sidemen. Although he did record with such great musicians as clarinetists Omer Simeon, George Baquet, Albert Nicholas, Wilton Crawley, Barney Bigard, Lorenzo Tio and Artie Shaw, trumpeters Bubber Miley, Johnny Dunn and Henry Allen, and many more. Morton generally had trouble finding musicians who wanted to play his style of jazz, and his New York sessions failed to produce a hit.==

= Later years = ==During the period when he was recording his interviews, Morton was seriously injured by knife wounds when a fight broke out at the Washington, D.C. establishment where he was playing. A nearby whites-only hospital refused to treat him, and he had to be transported to a lower quality hospital further away. When he was in the hospital the doctors left ice on his wounds for several hours before attending to his eventually fatal injury. His recovery from his wounds was incomplete, and there after he was often ill and easily became short of breath. Morton made a new series of commercial recordings in New York, several recounting tunes from his early years that he had been talking about in his Library of Congress interviews. An asthma affliction sent him to a New York hospital for three months at one point and when visiting Los Angeles with a series of manuscripts of new tunes and arrangements, planning to form a new band and restart his career, the ailment took its toll. Morton died on July 10, 1941 after an eleven-day stay in Los Angeles County General Hospital. == = References: =

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