[Dixielandjazz] Free Jazz and its New Orleans Jazz Roots

[Mike Meddings]

Hello Jack and Bill,
 
I always believed that Jelly Roll claimed the year of 1905
for King Porter Stomp.
 
See: http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/portearly.html

Best wishes.

Mike.
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/9/09, Jack Mitchell <fjmitch at westnet.com.au>
> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Haesler"
> <bhaesler at bigpond.net.au>
> > > "King Porter Stomp" for most 'jazz' musicians
> would
> > only go as far  back as the Swing era and Fletcher
> > Henderson's 1935 arrangement for  Benny Goodman and
> His
> > Orchestra.
> > > Ask almost any jazz person who composed it and
> when
> > and they would be quite surprised to hear that it was
> > Ferdinand 'Jelly Roll' Morton in 1902.
> > 
> > 
> > Dear Bill,
> > I am surprised - 1902 eh? That's the year JRM said
> that he
> > invented jazz - he turned twelve on October 20, 1902.
> If he
> > composed it before that date, he was only eleven.
> Strange
> > that, he said he named it in honour of Porter King,
> whom he
> > met years later on his travels.
> > 
> > Best wishes
> > Jack Mitchell 
> > 
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