Sublime

arranger Gil Evans,

Jelly Roll Morton, whose work we studied back in Chapter 3, was a strict formalist,

Jelly Roll Morton made in the 1920s, in which he tries to retain the comparatively complex structures he had learned from the rag composers and still leave a little space for improvisation.

“Sidewalk Blues,” recorded by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers in Chicago on September 21, 1926.

Duke Ellington,

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, that is not afraid to make a stand for right and justice. Its most noted columnist (and now publisher), Ralph McGill, Pulitzer Prize winner, is significantly referred to as “Rastus” by the White Citizens Councils.