Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton grew up playing piano in the bordellos of Storyville, claimed (with characteristic bravado) to have invented jazz single-handedly, and backed it up with some of the first great written jazz compositions on record. His 1926-27 sides with the Red Hot Peppers stand among the most fully composed early jazz ever waxed, and his own theory of the "Spanish tinge" — folding Afro-Caribbean habanera rhythms into blues and ragtime — named a hybrid New Orleans pianists were still chasing decades after his death.

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1926

Black Bottom StompJelly Roll Morton