The pianist known as Jelly Roll Morton went on a cross country tour that literally covered most of the U.S. He was quite the bon vivant, and pianist extraordinaire becoming very adept at ‘cutting ...

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.

In 1949, Lomax published Mister Jelly Roll, a biography-autobiography of Morton, based on the interviews he had conducted both with Jelly Roll and with his contemporary musicians, his wife Mabel ...

Yet Morton ultimately rejected the fan’s plan, as the Chicago Defender announced with an Aug. 10 headline: “Jelly Roll Morton Won’t Ask For Cash (From) Melrose Company.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Here you have a person’s life work, and a portrait of the world he lived in.” Finally, Jelly Roll Morton may get his due. Originally Published: December 2, 1997 at 1:00 AM CST ...

‘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 ...