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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In 1938, jazz/blues pianist and singer Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe—better known as Jelly Roll Morton—sat down behind the grand piano at the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium.

Jelly-Roll Blues” is recorded by American jazz pioneer pianist and composer Jelly Roll Morton; it’s the first-ever jazz ...

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 ...

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 ...

That's sort of ironically appropriate given that the show ends with jazz originator Jelly Roll Morton laid out on a coroner's slab in the place where he died in 1941, Los Angeles … not entirely ...

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 ...

Jelly Roll Morton. With a book by George C. Wolfe and lyrics by Susan Birkenhead, the show tells Morton’s story through his music. The score by Morton, adapted by Luther Henderson, who composed ...

One of the genre's most important early innovators was pianist, composer, arranger Jelly Roll Morton, whose career began as a teenaged pianist in the brothels of the red light district ...