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

Read more. Place our Musician of the Day widget on your website or blog. ... New Orleans pianist Jelly Roll Morton is widely considered to be jazz's first arranger. Though jazz was considered ...

But at age 14, after seeing the film, YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN, where Kirk Douglas portrays American Jazz trumpeter ... records of Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey ...

Jazz at Lincoln Center brings the sounds of New Orleans to the stage with a concert celebrating the city’s deep jazz roots. From early legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong to ...

Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist and composer with a knack for creating infectious melodies. A larger-than-life character, he claimed to have invented jazz single-handedly in 1902 ...

One of Henderson’s most popular records from this period was the jaunty “King Porter Stomp,” which, according to its composer, Jelly Roll Morton – another totemic figure in early jazz ...

Coachella 2025 wrapped up last night with headliner Post Malone, who, by the way, is already working on another country album. He didn’t debut any new music during the festival, but his Weekend 2 set ...

During an appearance on The Jennifer Hudson Show on Thursday, April 17, Jelly Roll and Luke Bryan were asked to reveal the "most embarrassing thing" that's happened to them while performing.

Jelly Roll's daughter, Bailee, is a beautiful young woman now, and she was looking like a Disney princess as she attended her high school prom over the weekend. The country singer's daughter ...

Jelly Roll has shared the details of something incredibly humiliating that happened to him while he was performing – and the story's stranger than you might expect. During an appearance on The ...