Jelly Roll Morton
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Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe, known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's first arranger, pro
Morton c. 1927
Morton claimed to have written "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1905.
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Jelly Roll Morton
…c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues 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…
Casquette girls, or Filles du Roi were girls sent to New France as wives for colonists. In Louisiana, they became known as Pelican girls.
A Choctaw chief
Louisiana Indians walking along a bayou (Alfred Boisseau, 1847)
A Choctaw Eagle dance