Few musicians did more to bring jazz from New Orleans to the rest of the world than Jelly Roll Morton. Here is his Mexican visa from 1921.
"If you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes," Morton claimed, "you will never be able to get the right seasoning for jazz."
1943 was the worst year in music history (according to this article). https://t.co/9RXUiWcTad Really? That year started with Duke Ellington's Black, Brown & Beige and ended with the debut of bebop on 52nd Street.