In 1961, Irma Thomas had visited the home of Toussaint’s parents, Clarence and Naomi. There, Toussaint had frequently ...

Harlem, the place to be. So hip, Roy Haynes once told me, cats said they would rather go to Harlem than to heaven.

Mike usually plays a supporting role with visiting top musicians but ... of some of the greats of jazz. Mike writes: “This show features music from Jelly Roll Morton through to Chick Corea ...

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 ...

Jazz music was, then, the soundtrack to a revolution ... “King Porter Stomp,” which, according to its composer, Jelly Roll Morton – another totemic figure in early jazz – had been ...

Born Ferdinand LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist and composer with ... brought a classical music-influenced sensibility to piano jazz, beginning in the ...

But at age 14, after seeing the film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, where Kirk Douglas portrays American Jazz ... music he heard on the 78 RPM gramophone records of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton ...

The Salmon Arm Jazz Club is excited to ... From an early age, he was drawn to classic music from artists like Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Jelly Roll recently headlined Florida's Tortuga Music Festival, on the heels of his hit Liar spending six weeks at number one. He's a triple nominee for the 60th ACM Awards in May and a contender ...

Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to ... This week, Lana Del Rey giddies up to country, Bon Iver finds the love and Jelly Roll discovers new “Dreams.” ...