MORTON, FERDINAND (JELLY ROLL
) (née FERDINAND JOSEPH MORTON or LA MENTHE). Ragtime, blues pianist/Jazz bandleader ( in New Orleans, Louisiana; in Los Angeles, California). He taught himself to play various instruments as a child, and by the time he was seven or eight he was playing on street corners in a three-piece boys' string band. At the age of ten he began piano study with local teachers, later studying with William Nickerson. By the time...