Jelly Roll Morton’s recorded music is available to the listener on CD. In an afterward, pianist Butch Thompson reminds us that the piano rolls are different from the recordings Morton made in roughly ...

The pianist known as Jelly Roll Morton went on a cross country tour that literally covered most of the U.S. He was quite the bon vivant, and pianist extraordinaire becoming very adept at ‘cutting ...

But while Melrose’s motive wasn’t laudable, he created an invaluable anthology of jazz ... improvisation that birthed it. Jelly Roll Morton, in back on piano, plays with jazz clarinetist ...

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 ...

The story of Jelly Roll Morton ... down-on-his-luck Morton extensively in Washington, D.C., in 1938, just three years before the composer’s death at age 50. Seated at a piano in an empty ...

Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe – better known as Jelly Roll Morton – isn’t always the first one who comes to mind. He’s regarded as a pioneer of jazz piano in New Orleans, a city which isn’t ...

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.

a riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of that Jelly Roll Morton bio ... picks up musical tips from piano players who never heard of Jules Massenet. We meet Morton on his death bed shortly ...

Despite being born with epilepsy, pianist Antonio Junius “Tony” Jackson became known as “the man of a thousand songs.” According to pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton, there was no tune—written or ...

Together, they narrate Morton’s life story in a manner similar to George Bailey and Clarence the Angel in the first half of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Since piano pyrotechnics don’t necessarily play ...

While New Orleans works to rebuild itself, one of its most legendary sons — Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton ... you'll get a richer sense of Morton's jubilant piano-playing and compositional ...