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Jelly Roll Morton
Publicity photograph, taken in Chicago, c. 1927

All publications of this photograph stem from a copy that Morton dedicated to his favourite clarinet player Omer Simeon (1902-1959), who was born in New Orleans, but trained in Chicago. The text reads:

With Best Wishes
to my friend
Omer Simeon
“Jelly Roll” Morton

The photograph, not including the dedication text, may first have appeared on the front cover of Folio No. 1 of “Jelly Roll” Morton’s Famous Series of Blues & Stomps for Piano, published by Herman Darewski, London, c. 1949. [25]

Shown in Mr. Jelly Lord (1980) by Laurie Wright, page 211 and in Oh, Mister Jelly (1999) edited by William Russell, page 396.

courtesy of Ate van Delden

© 2004 Ate van Delden Collection

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