Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe (Jelly Roll Morton) Quotes

In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe

• Jazz
• Mathematics
• Blues
• Harmonies

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• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Mathematics
  • Blues