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'Jelly's Last Jam' Off Broadway Review: How Jazz Was Born, or Was it?
a riveting warts-and-nothing-else revival of that Jelly Roll Morton bio-musical opened Wednesday ... Last Jam' Off Broadway Review: How Jazz Was Born, or Was it? appeared first on TheWrap.
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The Jazz Age Re-reborn: At Encores!, Jelly’s Last Jam
The real Morton was born into a Creole family in New Orleans ... The score is built around Jelly Roll Morton’s own music — with lyrics by Susan Birkenhead and some additional music by Luther ...