How Did Jelly Roll Morton Influence Jazz?

Jazz didn’t start out as Jazz, it was once called Ragtime. This was a composed piano style and was the first major black music style. Jazz was an innovation from Ragtime, they had similar music in them like the piano, but Jazz added sole and also added more brass instruments. Ragtime started in Sedalia Missouri where artist like Scott Joplin and Jelly Roll Morton got their taste of fame in the music world. Scott Joplin was an African-American pianist and composer. He was born into a musical family and learned to play the piano at a young age. When Joplin moved to Sedalia MO in 1894 he made a living as a piano teacher and he taught future Ragtime artist like Scott Hayden and Brun Campbell. Joplin started to write his own music in 1895 and published his famous piece called “Maple Leaf Rag” in 1899. This song made him the King of Ragtime. Jelly Roll Morton was another Ragtime artist who started his career in New Orleans. He also wrote early Jazz. Jelly Roll Morton was your typical musician, he was also a ladies man. He got his name “Jelly Roll” from being a ladies …show more content…
Joe King Oliver was also one of the artist who helped bring Jazz to Chicago because he moved there and brought his love for Jazz with him in 1921. Since people at this time still weren’t accepting of the black culture and Jazz was mostly composed by black people majority of whites still weren’t accepting of the type of music. Along with the music moving to Chicago, it also changed some of the sound to the music too. Chicago brought a more brass sound and less improvisation. Some of the new bands formed was the Austin High Gang which was a group of white kids that wanted to start playing Jazz. After this Jazz started spreading more nationally since more of the majority of the population was getting involved with it. From Chicago to New York the music kept spreading