composer, hustler, vaudeville show entertainer, rumored pimp. Ferdinand “Jelly Roll” Morton published the first recognized jazz music, “The Jelly Roll Blues,” in 1915, and with his band ...

Morton proved that jazz could retain its joyous, freewheeling feel even when scored on music paper. He also was jazz's first published composer. His Jelly Roll Blues was published in 1915. As a ...

This vivid, impressionistic portrait of legendary jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton ... ballads alike from Morton’s own music, lyricist Susan Birkenhead (Working) and composer Luther Henderson ...

For years, purist fans of traditional New Orleans jazz ... and Jelly Roll Morton. Enter the band Tuba Skinny. On a recent weekend on Frenchmen Street, the hottest two-block stretch of music ...

The advent of the phonograph in the 1920s and 1930s helped to bring the cutting edge sound of these musicians ... Jelly Roll Morton. The Jazz Love Blueprint is Dorothy’s sixth addition to a collection ...

A behind the scenes look at the Broadway production of Jellys Last Jam including a tribute to jazz musician and composer Jelly Roll Morton Gregory Hines and George C Wolfe who wrote the book for ...