num_pages: 420
description: Traces the jazz musician's career journey from Storyville to Broadway, showing the ways in which his unique compositions reflected the problems of America's poor
language: English
title: Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and 'Inventor of Jazz'
titlecomplete: Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and 'Inventor of Jazz'
genres: Biography, Music, Memoir, Nonfiction, Jazz, History
ratings_count: 120
publisher: Pantheon