On 9th of June 1924 “Jelly-Roll Blues” was recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton.
“Original Jelly Roll Blues”, usually shortened to and known as “Jelly Roll Blues”, is an early jazz fox-trot composed by American pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) in 1910 and copyrighted on 22 September 1915. The Original Memphis Five cut the original recording of the composition on 22 September 1923. Morton recorded his composition for the first time on 9 June 1924 in Richmond, Indiana, as a mid to uptempo piano solo, and then with his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago on December 16th 1926, titled as it was originally copyrighted: “Original Jelly-Roll Blues”.
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (né Lemott, later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz’s first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. His composition “Jelly Roll Blues“, published in 1915, was one of the first published jazz compositions. He also claimed to have invented the genre.
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