'The Pearls': Dave Van Ronk's Clever Arrangement of a Jelly Roll Morton Rag
From the January/February 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | BY PATRICK GRANT New Orleans-born pianist Ferdinand Joseph LaMenthe, better known as Jelly Roll Morton, was an early ragtime pianist who was present at the birth of jazz and even boasted of having invented it. Whatever the merits of that claim, Morton certainly played a significant role in the evolution of ragtime…
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