Jelly Roll Morton

Create a research paper on jazz musician Jelly Roll Morton.
It should be approximately seven pages in length with footnotes.

Jelly Roll Morton was a controversial figure in the history of jazz. His arrogant, boastful demeanor, along with a string of disreputable occupations and pastimes led to a general unpopularity. His music, however, was popular. Jelly Roll was relatively successful during his music career. With a few exceptions, he was able to make a good living between playing and writing music. His work became more respected after his death in 1941, and his influence on the jazz to come cannot be denied. As Charles Fox said in The Jazz Scene, many recent jazz composers "consciously or unconsciously... have inherited precepts that Morton put on record nearly half a century ago."...

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