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.
On a personal level, Morton was âjust about the most flamboyant, colorful and exasperating personality imaginable,â according to the liner notes of a 1953 reissue, which would seem to make him of a rock and roll forebear as well. Inductee: Jelly Roll Morton (piano, vocals; born 10/20/1890, died 7/10/41) Jelly Roll Morton is a seminal figure in the birth and development of jazz in the early decades of this century. A multi-talented pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader, he has been called âone of the handful of Atlases upon whose shoulders rests the entire structure of our musicâ by jazz historian Orrin Keepnews.