The story of Jelly Roll Morton — without doubt the first ... such as Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway ascendant, Morton barely could find work. Meanwhile, music publishers weren’t paying ...

But buried under an unassuming stone in Cavalry Cemetery are the bones of Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe — better known as Jelly Roll Morton — the ... In it, you'll find more on Jelly Roll and ...

“A fellow walked in to our store with a big red bandanna around his neck and a ten gallon cowboy hat on his head and hollered, ‘Listen everybody, I’m Jelly Roll Morton from New ...

Ferdinand “Jelly Roll ... in 1930 Morton and his wife Mabel Bertrand arrived in New York and soon ran into trouble. The Red ...

L.A. — birthplace of jazz? Jelly Roll Morton will probably be rolling in his grave, but a New York researcher has turned up the first printed use of the word in an April 2, 1912, story in The Times.

Jelly’s Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and “Inventor of Jazz” In 1938, Alan Lomax, a ...

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’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 ...