Jelly Roll Morton has won the Best Off Broadway Musical award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Get Jelly Roll Morton Email Alerts Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

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Jelly Roll Morton in 1925 at an RCA Victor session in Chicago. “I never got paid a penny of salary from the big companies as a talent scout,” Melrose told a Library of Congress curator ...

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‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ City Center Through March 3. Jelly Roll Morton would have loved “Jelly’s Last Jam,” even though it hardly portrays him as an admirable character — heroic, certainly, but not ...

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 ...

Morton’s sobriquet Jelly Roll itself was a term for female genitalia, and the songs Lomax coaxed out of the often-reluctant pianist conjure a world that was rapidly receding, even in 1938. Elijah Wald ...

Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Jelly Roll Morton gets the anti-hagiography treatment. Encores!'s Off Broadway revival production of "Jelly's Last Jam" at New York City Center. Robert Hofler. February 22, 2024 @ 10:47 AM.

On stage now with a 10-piece orchestra is “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the musical about one of jazz’s founding fathers, Jelly Roll Morton. With a book by George C. Wolfe and lyrics by Susan ...

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 ...