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 ...

Jelly Roll Morton: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings by Alan Lomax. by Ken Dryden November 5, 2005. Near the end of his life, Jelly Roll Morton was bitter and in financial straits, feeling ...

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’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 ...

Jelly Roll Morton has won the Best Off Broadway Musical award at the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Get Jelly Roll Morton Email Alerts Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

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 ...

With a diamond in his tooth, Jelly Roll Morton swaggered out of New Orleans and created a character too large and gaudy for just one man. He was nothing less than a legend from the underworld. He ...

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 ...

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 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 1938, at a low point in his career, Jelly Roll Morton recorded a series of interviews and performances with the folklorist Alan Lomax. Now those recordings have been released in a new box set ...