Jazz and ragtime composer Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in New Orleans in 1890. He played piano in a brothel at age 14—and told his church-going grandmother he was working as a f…
Jazz and ragtime composer Jelly Roll Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe in New Orleans in 1890. He played piano in a brothel at age 14—and told his church-going grandmother he was working as a f…