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Compatible Quotes: Jelly Roll Morton

I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is jellyrollmorton.jpgplaying my stuff and I don’t even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style, hell, they’re all Jelly Roll style. –Jelly Roll Morton

When Jelly Roll said that he wrote his first jazz tunes in 1902, or that he used scat-singing as far back as 1907, there is not only no proof to the contrary, but Jelly’s own considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation. –Gunther Schuller in Early Jazz

He could back up everything he said by what he could do. –Omer Simeon

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Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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