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In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day . . . I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.
Source: Disputing that W. C. Handy was the Father of the Blues; in I Discovered Blues in 1902, in Down Beat.
-- Jelly Roll Morton, (Sep 20 c. 1885-1941), US jazz singer, composer, pianist, bandleader; He was the first great composer of orchestral jazz.