Though as was the case with many music genres in those early days, pinpointing exact credit was an impossible task. Jelly Roll Morton could no more seriously claim (as he often did) that he was ...

a riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of that Jelly Roll Morton bio-musical ... to what’s delivered on stage here. Morton gets the “music” credit, but that music has been artfully ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent ... One of her powerhouse numbers points Morton on the road north.Credit ...

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 ...

How many shows has Jelly Roll Morton written? Jelly Roll Morton has written 3 shows including Jelly's Last Jam (Composer), Jelly Roll (Composer/Lyricist), Jelly Roll! (Composer). What awards has ...

In 2005, fans and scholars of early jazz and blues were handed the keys to a buried treasure chest: an eight-CD set of recordings that New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton had made at the Library ...

Orchestra at each performance. Credit...Nate Palmer for The New York Times Did you find yourself listening to a lot of Jelly Roll Morton as you prepared this music? How did you prepare for it?

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 ...

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 ...