MUSICIAN

Jelly Roll Morton

1890 - 1941

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Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (né Lemott, later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American blues and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jelly Roll Morton has received more than 1,577,738 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jelly Roll Morton is the 616th most popular musician (down from 409th in 2019), the 3,194th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,280th in 2019) and the 187th most popular American Musician.

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  • 54.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MUSICIANS

Among musicians, Jelly Roll Morton ranks 616 out of 3,175. Before him are Tony Sheridan, Rick Wakeman, Myung-whun Chung, Eliso Virsaladze, Tom Araya, and Artie Shaw. After him are Lee "Scratch" Perry, Vagif Mustafazadeh, Napoleon Orda, Paul Tortelier, Hillel Slovak, and Zequinha de Abreu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Jelly Roll Morton ranks 103. Before him are László Bárdossy, Mustafa Shokay, Louis Delluc, Evert Taube, Erwin Jaenecke, and Emilio Portes Gil. After him are Clarence Brown, Adolf Wagner, Harold Bride, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Jean Rhys, and Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1941, Jelly Roll Morton ranks 95. Before him are Amy Johnson, Nazikeda Kadın, Amrita Sher-Gil, Gutzon Borglum, Viktor Dankl von Krasnik, and Mustafa Shokay. After him are Jaan Tõnisson, Parvin E'tesami, Fritz-Julius Lemp, Grigory Shtern, Wil van Gogh, and Károly Huszár.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jelly Roll Morton ranks 3,194 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederick William Franz (1893), Diane Ladd (1935), Richard S. Hamilton (1943), Will Sampson (1933), Norman Finkelstein (1953), and James Turrell (1943). After him are Reggie Jackson (1946), Divine (1945), Anne Ramsey (1929), Bill Nunn (1953), Margaret Fuller (1810), and John Wesley Hyatt (1837).

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Among MUSICIANS In United States

Among musicians born in United States, Jelly Roll Morton ranks 187. Before him are Captain Beefheart (1941), Tommy Bolin (1951), Stephen Kovacevich (1940), Ahmad Jamal (1930), Lindsey Buckingham (1949), and Artie Shaw (1910). After him are Clifford Brown (1930), Ron Carter (1937), Joan Jett (1958), Victor Young (1900), Joe Pass (1929), and Steve Gadd (1945).

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