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| Doctor Jazz |
| Label: Proper Boxes |
| Cat
No: PROPERBOX113 |
| Format: 4 CD Set |
| Genre: Jazz |
| Barcode: 805520021135 |
Release Date: 29/01/07 |
Jelly Roll Morton’s life was nothing but colourful. He was a great tall tale teller and one of the most flamboyant extroverts jazz has ever known. Trying to separate fact from fiction in Jelly Roll Morton’s life is a difficult task. Morton was an outsize braggart who never underestimated his own importance. Hustling formed an important part of his life’s work. He was a pool player, a pimp, a bellhop, a tailor, a peddler, a cardsharp, a minstrel, a nightclub manager and a fight promoter, but it was as the first important jazz composer that he made his mark.
Jelly Roll Morton was not only the first real jazz composer; he was the first jazz musician to make his entire approach to the music compositional. Whether as a piano soloist or as a leader of orchestras over which he had undoubted control, Morton emerged, and will be chiefly honoured, as the creator of total conceived jazz masterpieces. His grandiose claims as an innovator should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he was a virtually self-contained master of invention, the originator of orchestral jazz.
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