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 ...

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 ...

On stage now with a 10-piece orchestra is “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the musical about one of jazz’s founding fathers, Jelly Roll Morton ... tells Morton’s story through his music.

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 ...

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 ...