eight-disc boxed set titled Jelly Roll Morton – The Complete Library Of Congress Recordings. “Winin’ Boy Blues” – with substantially reworked lyrics – was later covered by artists like ...

In 1938, jazz/blues pianist and singer Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe—better known as Jelly Roll Morton—sat down ... between being a “Winding Boy” or a “Winin’ Boy.” He also tells the ...

Elijah Wald centers his new biography of Morton, “Jelly Roll Blues ... of popular music (you can listen to Lomax’s recordings of “Murder Ballad” and “Winin’ Boy” on YouTube).

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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, and in the case of early blues ...

But when he turned on his 78-RPM disc-cutting machine, he tapped into the mother lode of American music history. As Jelly Roll Morton told his own story ... There’s Jelly’s infamous “Winin’ Boy Blues, ...

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 ...

There are two heroes in Jelly's Blues. One, of course, is the book's subject, legendary early jazz composer and pianist Jelly Roll Morton. The other is an eccentric ... in jazz - and one of many whom ...

In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton, a major New Orleans jazz ... This was, by Wald’s account, the world out of which the blues and other major strains of American music emerged. It remains inadequately ...