Some say musicians moved north in part because New Orleans authorities shut down the bordellos where jazz was the background music. Jelly Roll Morton began playing in the red-light district as a ...

Jelly Roll Morton has been nominated for the following awards: Best Off Broadway Musical (Outer Critics Circle Awards) and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre (Tony ...

Using the recordings of seminal jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton that Alan Lomax made ... been a federal crime until the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark mid-1960s obscenity rulings). Lyrics ...

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

The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax (Rounder) Around 1900, jazz became an independent form of music ... arranger Jelly Roll Morton, whose career began as a teenaged pianist ...