Finally, Jelly Roll Morton may get his due. Originally Published: December 2, 1997 at 1:00 AM CST. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook; ...

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 ...

With a diamond in his tooth, Jelly Roll Morton swaggered out of New Orleans and created a character too large and gaudy for just one man. He was nothing less than a legend from the underworld. He ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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.

Jelly's Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Howard Reich and William Gaines DaCapo Press ISBN: 0306812096 2003 . Howard Reich and William Gaines make an eye-opening ...

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.

Nicholas Christopher, left, as Jelly Roll Morton and Billy Porter as Chimney Man in the Encores! production of “Jelly’s Last Jam” at City Center.