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Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
New Orleans-based arranger and pianist who was the jazz idiom's first important composer.
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September 20, 1890
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America
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Louise Monette
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F. P. Lamothe
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Jelly Roll Morton
American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
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