Jelly+Roll+Morton

=Jelly roll morton = Jelly roll morton was born in New Orleans in 1890 to the name Fernindad Joseph LaMonthe. At an early age his father abandoned him and his mother died. Manly he was raised by his voodoo praticing garnadmother and grandfather. His first job at 14 was playing the piano at brothels in the district of storyville. His grandmother kicked out of the house for doing this. After this incident he became a part time pool shark and hustler but mainly his focus was jazz music. In his life Jelly roll morton had many achievements he completed. He was the first jazz musician to figure a way to right down jazz music. Before him jazz music was improvised on stage and in the moment, Jelly Roll wrote down jazz music like a regular composer did classical. He took beats that sound like other jazz musicians at the time. He wrote piano scores that took about three minutes to play. His most famous song his the king porter stomp. In the 1930's, when the depression hit Jelly Roll lost most of his money. His new job was playing piano at a dive bar in New York City. He moved back to Los Angles to try and be king once more but nobody bought his albums. He was considered to old for the awing listeners of the time. He died in 1941 due to bad health. His music left an incredible lagacy on the jazz music. Ironiclly his music became very poplular a few years after his death. Jazz muscians today still play his catchy and fast melodies. They are good to dance to and keep ones body moving until the song is over. He blames his poor health and untimly death to a voodoo curse set about by his grandmother. He is still remembered as the first person to right down jazz music.