Jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton would ... He was 51 years old. Morton, a proud New Orleans Creole, led a life that could have just as easily been told as a soap opera. If it had been that, there ...

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 ...

Jelly Roll Morton would have loved “Jelly’s Last Jam,” even though it hardly portrays him as an admirable character — heroic, certainly, but not sympathetic. Morton clearly thought of himself as the ...

Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton published the first recognized jazz music, “The Jelly Roll Blues,” in 1915, and with his band ...

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 ...

One of the genre's most important early innovators was pianist, composer, arranger Jelly Roll Morton, whose career began as a teenaged pianist in the brothels of the red light district ...

When legendary musician Jelly Roll Morton’s soul is forced to face the music, the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz” is left at the ultimate crossroads. Follow Jelly from the back alleys of ...

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 ...

When it comes to the top names in blues originators, Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe – better known as Jelly Roll Morton – isn’t ... one bar of G, one bar of F, and two bars of C, for instance.” ...