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.” ...

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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“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 ...

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.

For Wald, Jelly Roll Morton represents the hidden history of early American music and culture, a history that was well documented in its time — Lomax was one of many folklorist-archivists of his ...

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, talking in 1938 to folklorist Alan Lomax Explore more of Jeff Morgan's work online at WhereYart.net and in person at the Where Y'Art gallery, 1901 Royal St.

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 ...

Sometimes, the speeches between Morton and Chimney Man get a little long-winded, but there is always the music to beguile us. “Jelly’s Last Jam” is a weird hybrid.

Such is not the case with “Jelly’s Last Jam,” a 1992 musical that chronicles a life too far back to inspire theatergoers’ nostalgia: That of Jelly Roll Morton, a musician you probably only ...