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 ...

A new musical set in New Orleans, conceived and written by Tony Award winner Jack Viertel with music supervision, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

‘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 ...

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.

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 ...