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The origins of jazz

  • The first jazz composition

    The first jazz composition

    Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, professionally known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer. Morton was the first arranger of jazz, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated.

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