My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.
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.