Carrie, Simon, Dave and you others-take notice: Here is the foundation of your jazz; blues; rock music. Oh...my....Jelly Roll Morton: Musical career Morton claimed to have written Jelly Roll Blues in 1905. At the age of fourteen, Morton began working as a piano player in a brothel (or as it was referred to then, a sporting house). While working there, he was living with his religious, church-going great-grandmother; he had her convinced that he worked as a night watchman in a barrel factory. In that atmosphere, he often sang smutty lyrics; he took the nickname Jelly Roll,[6] which was black slang for female genitalia.[7] After Mortons grandmother found out that he was playing jazz in a local brothel, she kicked him out of her house. He said: When my grandmother found out that I was playing jazz in one of the sporting houses in the District, she told me that I had disgraced the family and forbade me to live at the house... She told me that devil music would surely bring about my downfall, but I just couldnt put it behind me.[8] Tony Jackson, also a pianist at brothels and an accomplished guitar player, was a major influence on Mortons music. Jelly Roll said that Jackson was the only pianist better than he was. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 13:49:05 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015