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The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last Jam
Jelly’s Last Jam (originally on Broadway in 1992) takes Jelly Roll Morton ... plum solos for the many figures in Morton’s life, each carried off by a Black theater star.
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Elijah Wald shows us how the world used to sound in ‘Jelly Roll Blues,’ a rollicking history of forbidden early jazz
In 1938 Jelly Roll Morton ... in using a recognized Black music icon as a springboard for wider inquiry into the social history of American music traditions. Morton provides a through line ...