I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is
playing my stuff and I don’t even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style, hell, they’re all Jelly Roll style. –Jelly Roll Morton
When Jelly Roll said that he wrote his first jazz tunes in 1902, or that he used scat-singing as far back as 1907, there is not only no proof to the contrary, but Jelly’s own considerable accomplishments in themselves provide reasonable substantiation. –Gunther Schuller in Early Jazz
He could back up everything he said by what he could do. –Omer Simeon