Their shady underside and the infectious ... walking into a music store on Cottage Grove Avenue and telling the Melrose brothers: “I’m Jelly Roll Morton, from New Orleans.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong were products of New Orleans, but Morton’s landmark ensemble recordings with His Red Hot Peppers and Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven releases were ...

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 ...