At just 17 years old, Ella Fitzgerald won first place singing at an amateur night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, which included a weeklong engagement — a huge opportunity that the legendary venue never gave her.

“[Keppard’s] Creole Band was tremendous. They really played jazz.” – Jelly Roll Morton, noting the invention of Jazz

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