The music critic Scott Yanow wrote, "Jelly Roll Morton did himself a lot of harm posthumously by exaggerating his worth, claiming to have invented jazz in 1902. Morton's accomplishments as an early innovator are so vast that he did not really need to stretch the truth."
Schuller, Gunther. The History of Jazz. Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986: 136 [2019-02-17]. ISBN 0-19-504043-0. （原始内容存档于2019-06-08）. In 2013, Katy Martin published an article arguing that Alan Lomax's book of selected interview transcriptions Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950), presented Morton in a way that negatively influenced his subsequent reputation. See Katy Martin (2013). "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz'Template:-". Popular Music and Society 36.1. pp. 30–39. doi:10.1080/03007766.2011.613225.
Detailed information, complete with charts, and drawing on the authoritative research of Lawrence Gushee, Emeritus Professor of music at the University of Illinois, is available from Peter Hanley's Jelly Roll Morton: An Essay in Genealogy (2002) （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
Schuller, Gunther. The History of Jazz. Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986: 136 [2019-02-17]. ISBN 0-19-504043-0. （原始内容存档于2019-06-08）. In 2013, Katy Martin published an article arguing that Alan Lomax's book of selected interview transcriptions Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950), presented Morton in a way that negatively influenced his subsequent reputation. See Katy Martin (2013). "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz'Template:-". Popular Music and Society 36.1. pp. 30–39. doi:10.1080/03007766.2011.613225.
Schuller, Gunther. The History of Jazz. Volume 2. New York: Oxford University Press. 1986: 136 [2019-02-17]. ISBN 0-19-504043-0. （原始内容存档于2019-06-08）. In 2013, Katy Martin published an article arguing that Alan Lomax's book of selected interview transcriptions Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz" (1950), presented Morton in a way that negatively influenced his subsequent reputation. See Katy Martin (2013). "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz'Template:-". Popular Music and Society 36.1. pp. 30–39. doi:10.1080/03007766.2011.613225.
Detailed information, complete with charts, and drawing on the authoritative research of Lawrence Gushee, Emeritus Professor of music at the University of Illinois, is available from Peter Hanley's Jelly Roll Morton: An Essay in Genealogy (2002) （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
