New Orleans Diaspora - Jelly Roll Morton & Sidney Bechet (1923 - 1928) by Russell Perry November 20, 2018. In this hour, we'll explore the music of two more giants of the New Orleans diaspora, pianist ...

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 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 Blues: The Life, Music, and Redemption of Jelly Roll Morton Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole, and “Inventor of Jazz” In 1938, Alan Lomax, a ...

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 ...

A program that runs less than an hour can scarcely do justice to Jelly Roll Morton's complex and intriguing legacy. Yet at the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage on Tuesday evening, pianist Dave ...

JELLY’S LATEST JAM: Jelly Roll Morton invented jazz -- or so he often claimed, with much flair. As a piano player in New Orleans during the first decade of the 20th century, he was certainly ...

‘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 ...

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 ...