In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton ... of American music traditions. Morton provides a through line for the book, but Wald is not so interested in the music for which the pianist and composer became ...

That’s fitting for a show about the invention of jazz ... Jelly Roll Morton, the self-mythologizing prodigy who at the very least popularized the form and wrote some of its earliest published ...

The musicians were Henry Butler, Ndidi Onukwulu, The James Danderfer Trio, Brass Roots, and C.R. Avery playing Jelly Roll Morton tunes ... cool New Orleans Jazz intermingled with the conversation, ...

A Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Production," which comes to Popejoy Hall on Feb. 8, celebrates the composers and music of ...

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 ...

Ferdinand Lamothe, self-proclaimed inventor of jazz, celebrated pianist and band-leader from New Orleans lived the most extraordinary life. Feted and neglected, celebrated and scorned, loved and ...

Kansas City and New Orleans are both known for jazz, but each city has its own sound. Jazz artist Jon Batiste will sing the national anthem at Sunday’s Super Bowl.

"New Orleans Songbook: A Jazz at Lincoln Center PRESENTS Production," celebrates the composers and music of the Crescent City, where jazz was born. It includes songs by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis ...