This day in music history.

June 19, 1902, 12 year old Jelly Roll Morton invents jazz. Morton (A gifted piano player) combines ragtime, French quadrilles and the hot blues played by Buddy Bolden. Morton wrote more than one thousand songs in his career including "King Porter Stomp" which became a standard covered by most other swing bands of that time. Mortons claim to be the father of Jazz has been disputed by some historians but with a name like Jelly Roll we think he must have been.