Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

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Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

Jelly Roll Morton

1950

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Jazz Music

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1950

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Jelly Roll Morton

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Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

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