Sometime along the way, he changed his name to Morton, and then added Jelly Roll as a stage name. The pianist known as Jelly Roll Morton went on a cross country tour that literally covered most of the ...

Left, pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Right, a cover image of "Jelly ... Johnson notes that hip-hop albums have long carried parental advisory labels, and he remembers being confused at why lyrics ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz pioneer, sat down for a series of extensive interviews and performances with a young folklorist named Alan Lomax. Sound recordings of these ...

Jelly Roll Morton was an American character so outrageous, that only he could have invented himself. Born Ferdinand Lamothe, sometimes spelled LaMothe, Lamenthe, LaMenthe, Lamotte, and Lemott ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of ...

Jelly Roll Morton. With a book by George C. Wolfe and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, the show tells Morton’s story through his music. The score by Morton, adapted by Luther Henderson, who composed ...

JELLY’S LATEST JAM: Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz -- or so he often claimed, with much flair. As a piano player in New Orleans during the first decade of the 20th century, he was certainly ...