Grace notes, glissandi, and such are notated in the book. They’re easy enough to understand, but quite difficult to play; they make quantifiable goals for the performer. Jelly Roll Morton’s recorded ...

Jelly Roll Morton was an American character so outrageous ... The author of now 11 books on popular music — covering everything from Robert Johnson to the Beatles to the proto-rap game of ...

In 1938, jazz/blues pianist and singer Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe—better known as Jelly Roll Morton—sat down behind the grand piano at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium. It was at ...

Jelly Roll Morton’s “Original Jelly Roll Blues.” This B-flat major foxtrot was originally published as sheet music for solo piano by Will Rossiter, a publisher out of Chicago. Morton recorded it as a ...

The book examines how ribald rhymes ... Left, pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Right, a cover image of "Jelly Roll" blues sheet music. “It’s the audience, not the artists, that supplies the scene ...

Q. Could you possibly tell me where I can obtain records or tapes of these tunes that are favorites of my wife: You’re my Happiness, You’re Every Woman in the World to Me and Life is Just a ...

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 ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll ... book on Johnson, “Escaping the Delta,” in using a recognized Black music icon as a springboard for wider inquiry into the social history of American music traditions ...

a riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of that Jelly Roll Morton bio-musical opened Wednesday at the New York City Center. George C. Wolfe wrote the book and ... always the music to beguile ...