Birth Quote by Jelly Roll Morton

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the…

— Jelly Roll Morton

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

— Steve Lacy

Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock n' roll,…

— The Edge

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

“The role of these New Orleans Creoles in the development of jazz remains one of the least understood and most commonly mis-represented issues in…

— Ted Gioia

The word [jazz] never lost its association with those New Orleans bordellos. In the 1920s I used to try to convince Fletcher Henderson that…

— Duke Ellington

“ORIGIN OF JAZZ It was 1906. People were coming and going as usual along Perdido Street in a poor neighborhood of New Orleans. A…

— Eduardo Galeano

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

— Paul Whiteman

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

— John Goodman

I was exposed to jazz early on.

— Mark White

What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans…

— Damien Chazelle

New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of…

— Wynton Marsalis