The story of Jelly Roll Morton — without doubt the first jazz giant — is so incredible it’s no wonder Hollywood never tried to make it into a movie.

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.

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 ...

Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax. by Ken Dryden November 5, 2005. Near the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton was bitter and in financial straits, feeling ...

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 ...

‘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 buried without a headstone. Nine years later, the Southern California Hot Jazz Society held a fundraiser to finally put a marker over the jazzman’s casket.

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people who have made New Orleans New Orleans, ...

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.

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.