[78-L] Jelly Roll Morton's first records and piano rolls

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Hmm... unlikely. Nice concise article on player-piano history here:
http://www.pianola.com/pphist.htm
A recording piano in the south prior to 1908-09? Probably not. Article 
says commercial production of rolls and true "standard" players began 
around then, and probably in New York. Morton was born in New Orleans 
sometime between 1884 & 1890. He was in Chicago by 1910 and New York by 
1911 and back in Chicago by 1923. It is possible he made piano rolls 
somewhere in this range of dates, but he would have been out of his 
teens by then.
Mal

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bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:

Does anyone have any definitive information as to when Ferdinand Jelly 
Roll Morton first made recordings or Piano Rolls. The sites on the 
internet I go to says he didn't start making Piano Rolls or Records 
until 1923, however there is someone insisting under the comments on 
this site, that he started making records and piano rolls back around 
the turn of the last Century when he was in his teens. Can anyone shed 
some light on this conflict ??
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