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14430: Harvey: Jelly Roll Morton's Haitian background (fwd)




From: Sean Harvey <seanharvey@juno.com>

I was recently told that the seminal jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton -- who is second only to Buddy Bolden in the creation of the art form -- was of Haitian extraction, and that either his parents or his grandparents moved to New Orleans from Haiti. Can anyone confirm this and is anything known about his family?

Sean Harvey