The Virtual Reality (VR) Treatment Program at the Duke Faculty Practice offers a new human-computer interaction form of therapy for individuals with anxiety disorders due to fear of heights, elevators, thunderstorms, public speaking and flying.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton is perhaps most notable as jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential spirit and characteristics when notated. His composition Jelly Roll Blues was the first published jazz composition, in 1915.
But Jelly Roll Morton, writes noted music scholar Eileen Southern in The Music of Black Americans, is regarded as the first true jazz composer. He was the first to write down his jazz arrangements in musical notation, and he was the originator of a large number of the musical compositions that became staples in the jazz repertory..