Tommy Douglas (clarinetist)
Tommy Douglas( November 9, 1911–9 March 1965) was an American jazz clarinetist, bandleader and reed instrumentalist born in Eskridge, Kansas, probably better known for his work as a sideman for Jelly Roll Morton and Bennie Moten.
He was also an accomplished bandleader, showcasing such talent in his bands as Charlie Parker and Jo Jones, among others.
He also performed with Captain Woolmack's Band and the Clarence Love Orchestra.
Ward Pinkett
William Ward Pinkett, Jr.( April 29, 1906 — March 15, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter and scat vocalist active during the Harlem Renaissance.
A respected sideman recognized as a" hot" trumpet and with a versatile ear, he played and recorded with some of the greatest jazzmen of the era, including King Oliver, Jimmy Johnson, Chick Webb and Jelly Roll Morton.
His career was cut short by alcoholism.
Miloš Zličić
Miloš Zličić( born 29 December 1999) is a Serbian football forward.
He is a younger brother of Lazar Zličić.
John Szwed
John F. Szwed( born 1936) is the John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, African American Studies and Film Studies at Yale University and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, where he previously served as the Center's Director and Professor of Music and Jazz Studies.
Szwed is the author of many books on jazz and American music, including studies of Sun Ra, Miles Davis, Jelly Roll Morton, Alan Lomax and Billie Holiday.
Joe Thomas (alto saxophonist)
Joe" Cornbread" Thomas( Muskogee, Oklahoma, 23 December 1908), was an alto saxophonist and songwriter.
He was the brother of Walter" Foots" Thomas.
He first went to New York City with Jelly Roll Morton in 1929.
He then worked with Blanche Calloway and other bands during the 1930s, and with jazz musician Dave Martin during the early 1940s.
He gave up playing to become a vocal coach and songwriter and later an A&R executive.
Joe Darensbourg
Joe Darensbourg( July 9, 1906 – May 24, 1985) was a New Orleans based jazz clarinetist and saxophonist notable for his work with Buddy Petit, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Andy Kirk, Johnny Wittwer, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone, Joe Liggins and Louis Armstrong.
Edmonia Henderson
Edmonia Henderson( c. 1898 or 1900 – February 17, 1947) was an African- American classic female blues singer.
She was active as a recording artist in the mid-1920s, recording at least 14 songs between 1924 and 1926.
She later became an evangelist.
At various times, Henderson sang accompanied by Jelly Roll Morton, Tommy Ladnier, Lovie Austin, Eddie Heywood, and Johnny Dodds.
Zue Robertson
Zue( C. Alvin) Robertson( March 7, 1891 – c. 1943) was an American early jazz trombonist from New Orleans, LA, highly regarded by his contemporaries and credited by music historian Orrin Keepnews as the trombonist who set the standard for all trombonists who followed.
Robertson began touring with Kit Carson's" Wild West Show" in 1910 and also worked with the legendary trumpeter Manuel Perez.
In 1917 Robertson found himself playing in Chicago with such icons as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, W.C. Handy and Dave Peyton.
In 1929 he began playing the organ and piano in New York City at the Lincoln Theatre and Lafayette Theatre.
In 1932 he moved to California and began playing as a bassist.
Robertson's only known jazz recordings are a pair of sides with Jelly Roll Morton in Chicago in 1923(" London Blues" and" Someday Sweetheart" on Okeh Records); some fellow musicians said Robertson also anonymously recorded a record of virtuoso trombone figures with a brass band in New York City.
Clarence Copithorne
Clarence Copithorne( November 12, 1920 – June 4, 1979) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.
He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1975 sitting as an Independent and later with the Progressive Conservative caucus in both opposition and government.
During his time in office he served as a cabinet minister in the government of Peter Lougheed from 1971 to 1975.
Jelly Roll Morton
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe( October 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who started his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated.
His composition" Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was the first published jazz composition.
Morton also wrote the standards" King Porter StompWolverine BluesBlack Bottom Stomp", and" I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say", the last a tribute to New Orleans musicians from the turn of the 20th century.
Morton's claim to have invented jazz in 1902 aroused resentment.
The jazz historian, musician, and composer Gunther Schuller says of Morton's" hyperbolic assertions" that there is" no proof to the contrary" and that Morton's" considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation".
Alan Lomax, who recorded extensive biographical interviews of Morton at the Library of Congress in 1938, did not agree that Morton was an egotist:
In being called a supreme egotist, Jelly Roll was often a victim of loose and lurid reporting.
If we read the words that he himself wrote, we learn that he almost had an inferiority complex and said that he created his own style of jazz piano because" All my fellow musicians were much faster in manipulations, I thought than I, and I did not feel as though I was in their class."
So he used a slower tempo to permit flexibility through the use of more notes, a pinch of Spanish to give a number of right seasoning, the avoidance of playing triple forte continuously, and many other points".
-- Quoted in John Szwed," Dr Jazz".

Question: Who is younger, Clarence Copithorne or Jelly Roll Morton?
Answer: Clarence Copithorne