Jelly Roll Morton ~ Similar Artists

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Fats Waller - 100% match to Jelly Roll Morton

Thomas Wright Waller, 21 May 1904, Waverley, New York, USA, d. 15 December 1943, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Influenced by his grandfather, a violinist, and his mother, Waller was playing piano at students' concerts and organ in his father's church by the time he was 10 years... Read more

James P. Johnson - 98% match to Jelly Roll Morton

James Price Johnson, 1 February 1894, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, d. 17 November 1955, New York City, New York, USA. Taught piano by his mother, Johnson assimilated a wide range of musical styles. In the years following his family's relocation to New York, he continued his... Read more

King Oliver - 92% match to Jelly Roll Morton

11 May 1885, Abend, Louisiana, USA, d. 10 April 1938, Savannah, Georgia, USA. Raised in New Orleans, cornettist Joe "King" Oliver became well known through appearances with local marching and cabaret bands during the early years of this century. After playing with notable early... Read more

Sidney Bechet - 92% match to Jelly Roll Morton

14 May 1897, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, d. 14 May 1959, Paris, France. A major figure in early jazz, an outstanding clarinettist, and for decades the only performer of consequence on soprano saxophone, Sidney Bechet's career began in 1909. During the next few years he played... Read more

Bix Beiderbecke - 90% match to Jelly Roll Morton

Leon Bix Beiderbecke, 10 March 1903, Davenport, Iowa, USA, d. 6 August 1931, New York City, New York, USA. One of the legends of jazz, a role he would doubtless have found wryly amusing had he lived to know of it, Bix Beiderbecke entered music when he began picking out tunes on... Read more

Original Dixieland Jazz Band - 80% match to Jelly Roll Morton

In May 1916 several young white New Orleans musicians were working in Chicago, often appearing in the same bands. After a few changes the musicians settled down as a permanent band, with the personnel consisting of Nick LaRocca (Dominic James LaRocca, 11 April 1889, New Orleans,... Read more

Fletcher Henderson - 72% match to Jelly Roll Morton

Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, 18 December 1897, Cuthbert, Georgia, USA, d. 28 December 1952, New York City, New York, USA. One of the most important figures in the development of big band music, in the early 30s Henderson set the standards by which early big band jazz was... Read more

Bessie Smith - 59% match to Jelly Roll Morton

15 April 1894, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, d. 26 September 1937, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA. In her childhood, Smith sang on street corners before joining a touring black minstrel show as a dancer. Also in the show was Ma Rainey, and before long the young newcomer was also... Read more

Scott Joplin - 56% match to Jelly Roll Morton

24 November 1868, Texarkana, Texas, USA, d. 1 April 1917, New York City, New York, USA. Joplin's father was born into slavery, becoming a freedman with Emancipation in 1863. A musical individual, he encouraged the musical aspirations of his sons and daughters. Scott Joplin, who... Read more

Jimmie Lunceford - 53% match to Jelly Roll Morton

James Melvin Lunceford, 6 June 1902, Fulton, Mississippi, USA, d. 12 July 1947, Seaside, Oregon, USA. At school in Denver, Colorado, Lunceford studied under Wilberforce Whiteman, father of Paul Whiteman. He later read for a degree in music at Fisk University, where his studies... Read more