1912年至1914年,莫頓與他的女友羅莎·布朗一起巡迴各地,進行歌舞雜耍表演,然後搬到芝加哥。到1914年,他開始寫下他的作品。1915年,他的《Jelly Roll Blues》可以說是有史以來第一部出版的爵士音樂作品,以樂譜記錄了新奧爾良的傳統,這些傳統被音樂家們小心翼翼地保護著。1917年,他跟隨樂隊領隊威廉·曼努埃爾·約翰遜(英语:William Manuel Johnson)和約翰遜的妹妹安妮塔·岡薩雷斯來到加利福尼亞州,莫頓的探戈作品《The Crave》在好萊塢轟動一時。[13]
^Giddins, Gary; DeVeaux, Scott (2009). Jazz. New York: W. W. Norton. ISBN978-0-393-06861-0.
^The music critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth, claiming to have invented jazz in 1902. Morton's accomplishments as an early innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth."
^Schuller, Gunther. The History of Jazz. Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986: 136 [2019-02-17]. ISBN 0-19-504043-0. (原始内容存档于2019-06-08). In 2013, Katy Martin published an article arguing that Alan Lomax's book of selected interview transcriptions Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950), presented Morton in a way that negatively influenced his subsequent reputation. See Katy Martin (2013). "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz'Template:-". Popular Music and Society 36.1. pp. 30–39. doi:10.1080/03007766.2011.613225.
^John Szwed, "Doctor Jazz", booklet in Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings, Rounder (2005), p. 3.
^Detailed information, complete with charts, and drawing on the authoritative research of Lawrence Gushee, Emeritus Professor of music at the University of Illinois, is available from Peter Hanley's Jelly Roll Morton: An Essay in Genealogy (2002) (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆)
^Hanley, Jelly Roll Morton: An Essay in Genealogy. His baptismal certificate lists his date of birth as October 20, 1890, but Hanley's research leads him to prefer the birthdate of September 20, 1890. John Szwed, on the other hand, prefers the date of 1895. See "Doctor Jazz" in Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings (Rounder Records, 2005), p. 4.
Ward, Geoffrey C.; Burns, Kenneth. Jazz, a History of America's Music. Random House.
延伸閱讀
Dapogny, James (1982). Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton: The Collected Piano Music. Smithsonian Institution Press.
Gushee, Lawrence (2010). Pioneers of Jazz : The Story of the Creole Band. Oxford University Press.
Lomax, Alan (1950, 1973, 2001). Mister Jelly Roll. University of California Press. ISBN0-520-22530-9.
Martin, Katy (2013). "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz.'" Popular Music and Society 36.1 (February 2013), pp. 30–39. DOI: 10.1080/03007766.2011.613225.
Pareles, Jon (1989). "New Orleans Sauce for Jelly Roll Morton: 'He Was the First Great Composer and Jazz Master', Tribute to Jelly Roll Morton." New York Times, 1989, sec. Arts.
Pastras, Phil (2001). Dead Man Blues: Jelly Roll Morton Way Out West. University of California Press.
Reich, Howard; Gaines, William (2004). Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton. Da Capo Press. ISBN0-306-81350-5.
Russell, William (1999). Oh Mister Jelly! A Jelly Roll Morton Scrapbook, Copenhagen: Jazz Media ApS.
Szwed, John. "Doctor Jazz" (2005). Liner notes to Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax. Rounder Boxed Set. 80-page illustrated monograph. This book-length essay is also available without illustrations at Jazz Studies Online (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆): John Szwed, Doctor Jazz: Jelly Roll Morton (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆).
Wright, Laurie (1980). Mr. Jelly Lord. Storyville Publications.