The Bookcliffs Arts Center’s Summer Concert Series continues this weekend with a free performance from the renowned 101st ...

“A fellow walked in to our store with a big red bandanna around his neck and a ten gallon cowboy hat on his head and hollered, ‘Listen everybody, I’m Jelly Roll Morton from New ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using the recordings of seminal jazz pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton that Alan Lomax made for the Library of Congress in 1938 as his road map, Wald uncovers a lost continent of working-class ...

Jelly Roll Morton would have loved “Jelly’s Last Jam,” even though it hardly portrays him as an admirable character — heroic, certainly, but not sympathetic. Morton clearly thought of himself as the ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Did Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of ...

Under the auspices of Encores!, a riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of that Jelly Roll Morton bio-musical opened Wednesday at the New York City Center. George C. Wolfe wrote the book and ...